
Meanwhile, the infamous Earl of Sheringford has returned to England to reclaim his entitlements, only to be told he must marry within fifteen days or lose everything. When she runs into the man who spurned her so many years before, she become terribly desperate to save face. Our heroine is an “on the shelf” woman who decides, afterall, its time to get married.

Mary Balogh’s latest release in her First Comes series is At Last Comes Love. Then she runs (literally) into the Earl of Sheringford, who is in such total disgrace with the ton that he has not dared show his face in town for five years and would not be there now if he were not in such desperate need of a bride.”


But first she meets the widowed Crispin Dew, who years ago had betrayed their secret betrothal and married someone else, and next she learns that the man she had hoped to marry is engaged to another woman. She arrives in London during the Season full of hope. “Margaret Huxtable is thirty years old and has finally decided to do the sensible thing and get married.
