The Lady Paramount

291 pp. "In the first decade of the twentieth century, the Countess de Sampaolo, heir to the throne of an Italian isle, is a ravishing beauty graced with wit, charm, and a fierce independent streak. Knowing her ancestors to be usurpers, she decides to single-handedly restore the rightful count of Sampaolo: Anthony Craford, a young, cynical landowner exiled in rural England. Under an assumed name, she rents a house on his estate and sets a 'little scheme' in motion... to make him fall in love with her."