From the back cover:
THE PRETENDER
An orphan from London's East End, a fugitive from the poorhouse,
Violet Cooper was tired of sleeping on stoops and being hungry
and cold. But she dared to enter a world forbidden to her kind.
Even marriage toa gentle, elderly knight and the title Lady
Goodwin could not open closed doors, stop the cold stares, or
hush the shadowy rumors of murder...
THE ARISTOCRAT
He was a man of the world. The rules of Victorian society did
not interest him, nor could a gauche pretender with Cockney
accent possibly turn his head. Yet Theodore Blake, second son
of the Earl of Harding, was immediatley compelled by Violet-
and soon found himself defending the vulnerable young widow
in the face of a murder investigation. but wedding vows were
the only way to save her from certain hanging...
THE FINER THINGS