Lessons in Love

One of M. C. Beaton’s best Regencies features a young woman betrothed at the tender age of ten to the gentleman that had kidnapped her.

Lady Lucinda Esmond''s swine of a father, the Earl of Sotheran, was forever fleecing young bucks in London''s gaming halls with impunity—until he cheats Captain Mark Chamfrey, who kidnaps ten-year-old Lucinda for ransom.

But when Chamfrey has a change of heart and r...