Love and the Marquis

At sixteen and a half, Lady Imeldra is ready to leave school and resume a carefree life with Earl Kingsclere, her father. But the Earl has other plans for Imeldra who rebels at being sent to live with her strict grandmother. She runs off to the estate of Marizon where she loses her heart to a brooding, cynical Marquis--and determines to free him from a blackmailing Frenchwoman and win his love!