A Precious Jewel

Description for A PRECIOUS JEWEL by Mary Balogh:

Luck is a Lady

Once Miss Priscilla Wentworth had been a well-bred young lady. That was before family tragedy left her without shelter from poverty and want. Now Priscilla supposed she should count herself lucky that a gentleman like Sir Gerald Stapleton wanted her to be his most favored favorite-someone who was worthy of being his mistress. But Priscilla was not foolish enough to think that lucky in lust meant lucky in love-just as Sir Gerald did not dream that Priscilla could be anything more to him than a plaything of passion.

But though both Priscilla and Sir Gerald knew the ways of the world all too well, they knew all too little about the ways of the heart...

This is #2 in Stapleton Downes Series.