Frances Law's Reviews > One Golden Ring

A tangled mess!

Lady Fiona Hollingsworth has been through more unhappiness than she ever thought she’d bear. First she had lost her mother, then the man she had loved since she was thirteen and had thought to marry had married another; shortly after that she had lost her father and, with her brother, now Lord Randolph Agar, in the Peninsula, it had fallen to her to sort out the estate. She had discovered that the estate was broke! Now she has received a letter demanding the enormous sum of twenty-five thousand guineas!
Nicholas Birmingham is called the Wolf of the Exchange and is surmised to be the richest man in England. He has two brothers and a sister. One brother runs their bank, the other works on the continent keeping in touch with the wealthy and politically important while Nick plays the stock market.
One night at the theatre Nicholas is pointed out to Fiona as being the protector of the beautiful actress on stage. That’s when she comes up with a plan. The Birminghams have everything except the entree into the aristocracy and Lady Fiona offers herself, and that entree, to Nicholas for the sum of twenty-five thousand guineas to ransom her brother.
This story highlights the vast difference between the aristocracy and the rest of the population during the Regency period. Arrogant to a fault, Fiona’s brother Lord Randolph wants nothing to do with his sister now that she has married down.
Fiona and Nick each have their own secrets that threaten any future they may have together.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave.........