Ladies of Missalonghi
- ISBN-10
- 0380704587
- ISBN-13
- 9780380704583
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988-04-01
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Colleen McCullough
Description
Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.
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