
In a brilliant social season, Edwardian London's dizzying whirl had its share of surprises. The latest was Kitty Harrison, once achingly poor, suddenly an heiress--and now, thanks to her determined mother, about to become a Baroness. From the moment Kitty set eyes on Lord Chesworth, she thought him the most exciting man she had ever seen. But she was young, innocent, bedazzled. How could she question the motives of the dashing bachelor who swore he loved her even as he courted the scandalously beautiful Mrs. Jackson? All too soon Kitty's dream of marriage became a nightmare. Someone was trying to kill her. Adrift in a sea of deception, she knew that to save her life and win the only man she had ever loved, she would have to learn to play the game her way: smarter... better... forever.

1936 – 2019
Marion Chesney was born in 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland. Her first job was a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While working there, the Scottish Daily Mail hired her to review variety shows; she quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to work as a secretary--albeit without typing or shorthand skills--in the advertising department of Scottish Field magazine but was soon the fashion editor instead. She moved to the Scottish Daily Express, where she reported mostly on crime, then to Fleet Street and the Daily Express, where she was their chief woman reporter. Marion married Harry Scott Gibbons, and they had a son, Charles. Harry was offe…
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