If you simply adore The Charm School by Susan Wiggs and The Lion’s Lady by Julie Garwood, this is a book you shouln’t miss. Take one tomboy, feisty heroine, an inheritance and the proviso that she turn herself into a lady...
Valoree has been named heir to Ainsley Castle. And the will distinctly states that in order to inherit, she must be married to a nobleman - and pregnant. Upon learning that, the virgin captain is ready to return to the seas, but her crew puts the issue to a vote - and this motley crew of men decides its time they retire with their loot and where better than a castle. And poor Valoree - for those rascally cusses she will do anything. Reluctantly, she agrees. If they can find a way - Henry and One-Eye and Skully - to put on her a sweet face that will fool the ton, she will handle the rest. Even with a drunken prostitute as an “aunt” and her merry cutthroat crew as “servants.”