Gwendeline (11)

Penniless! Gwendeline, just eighteen and totally unsuited to earn her own way in the world, was to be evicted from her country estate. Then the butler ushered in a tall, rather arrogant visitor, Lord Merryn. He had, it seemed, been a friend of her late parents, who had lived too well and too briefly -- squandering their fortune and then meeting death in a carriage accident.But Gwendeline was an older orphan than Lord Merryn had expected: she was a young lady and must be introduced to London society. Quickly, he invented a "group of her parents' friends" to finance her debut. Never must she learn that he alone was her benefactor -- or why. --Backcover copy