This is a classic Regency novel inspired by Jane Austen. --------------------- Ivy only wanted a simple life filled with love and happiness, but that wasn't easy growing up with her grumpy aunt and snobbish cousin. She lived in their shadows, being told she was ugly and would never get a good husband. Now at the age of 23 and still unmarried (most women married young back then, keep in mind) she too began to believe she would live forever as an unmarried woman.But life is sure to change and for Ivy it's a good one.