Claire’s family life was unhappy and erratic up until the death of her parents when she and her sisters were taken into the care of their grandmother. (p.29)Ĭlaire is the eldest of a family of four younger sisters and a half-brother, Robert Lyster, whose father-in-law is a country neighbour of Lord Hawksfield. If he had laughed on hearing who she was, that was the sudden lifting of the regret he had felt only minutes earlier, that he should meet a girl like this on the very day he had learned of his father’s plans. (p.14)īut the day following, he meets beautiful and poised Claire Lammond at the Frost Fair held on the frozen Thames when he returns her purse to her after it is snatched by a young pickpocket. A companion, a helpmate – the homely word made him smile. He doesn’t mind the idea of an arranged marriage.Ī girl who agreed to an arranged marriage should know what she was about.
He immediately discovers that his father has arranged a marriage for him to a wealthy Scottish heiress. He is the second son of Lord Hawksfield but, with his elder brother’s accidental death, Justin is now heir. An Independent Heart by Elizabeth Grant begins in at the very end of January 1814 with Captain Justin Sumners arriving in a wintery England after serving five years in Spain during the Peninsular War, including seven recent months spent as a captive.
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