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.