The indomitable Sofia

Meet the most captivating heroine to ever grace the pages of a novel. Sofia Stanton-Lacy is cheerful, impulsive, and disconcertingly frank—characteristics that clash with what one would expect of a woman in her position in early 19th-century London society. Raised during her father's travels and motherless, she arrives at her aunt's house in Berkeley Square to shatter conventions and surprise everyone with her independent ways and sharp tongue. And Sophy seems to have arrived at just the right time: her cousins are in a lot of trouble. The tyrannical Charles is engaged to a young woman as dull as himself, Cecilia is in love with a poet, and Hubert has serious financial problems. The newly arrived cousin decides to help everyone with her determination and impetuosity, and ends up confronting loan sharks, stealing her cousin's horses, and grazing an honorable gentleman. Although often far-fetched and risky, her plans always work, and everything seems under her control. What she doesn't expect, however, is that her cousin Charles, who apparently can't wait to find her a husband, suddenly starts to see her in a different light...