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.