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Lillian Craig has been governess to the twin boys for only one week, when their parents are killed in a fire that destroys their home. Having no other living relatives that are known, the church offers them temporary refuge.

Matilda Weldon refuses to marry the husband that her parents have chosen for her. She will, she says, marry the ugliest man in London rather than become the wife of a man she loathes. Her three loyal friends are determined to help her, but how does one advertise for an ugly husband? Then, one day, a solution appears.

St. John Bennington has tolerated his father’s debauchery for decades, but this latest outrage jeopardizes the reputation of his darling sister, who is preparing to make her society debut. Little does John realize that a scandal of his own will soon walks through the stage door, a talented young actress named Nell Dorchester.

Samantha Sykes is a beautiful young woman, but her life is ugly. Her wicked stepmother, twisted with jealousy, arranges a marriage for Samantha with a rich, arrogant, and cruel man. It's only the actions of her concerned father that save her from this fate worse than death. Or so it seems, until she discovers that her father’s plan is to send her hundreds of miles away to Lord Callum’s castle in Inverness, as servant and cook to a disfigured beast of a man, hidden from all but those who dare enter his maternal grandfather’s home.

Florence Knightley is shamelessly rejected by her own mother. She despises her daughter’s blemished looks. Such an ugly duckling is a shame to the house of Knightley among society’s more refined peers. When the young woman turns 18, her father decides it is high time his daughter marry, but who would even consider such an imperfect girl?

Humble and beautiful, Isabelle Sanders sacrifices all to take care of the village orphans, much to her proud mother’s disdain. When the pompous Lord Miles Spencer and his troops parade the street each day, Isabelle’s wards eagerly wave, but the young soldier shows nothing but contempt for the poor urchins–until he sees their keeper.