The Heiress

Nick Burley succeeds to the title only to discover that his father's ruinous career has left his neglected estates deep in debt and generating little revenue. Determined to pay his creditors in full and to provide for his widowed stepmother and 8 stepsisters, he throws himself into managing his estate at the same time dispensing with all of the usual trappings of a gentleman and, at the same time, any prospect of an advantageous marriage.
Six years later, Miss Isabella Rhetford, a most uncon...