Time is running out for Elizabeth Elliot. She must find a husband soon, for her father’s plan of retrenchment—and his health—are failing. She is left to choose between Sir Henry, a worn out man of fashion whose invalid wife is not quite dead, and wealthy, tiresome Mr. Rushworth.

But when a wondrous invitation arrives, Elizabeth throws caution to the wind. It isn’t romance she seeks, but a proper alliance. Alone in a moonlight garden, she encounters Admiral Patrick McGillvary, who is as disastrously handsome as he is opinionated.

As Elizabeth will discover, the course of love is anything but smooth.

“A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
Jane Austen

Mary Musgrove, who is always short of cash, is having her public library purchase a copy of So Rough A Course so she won't have to pay! Clever Mary!

I have an honest-to-goodness listing at Amazon.com And three readers have put up reviews! As Jane would say, "I am all astonishment!"

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