Diana the Huntress - Six Sisters, Bk 5 Author:Marion Chesney Poor Diana! All she cared for was the hunt. But the statuesque brunette had been ordered by her father to throw off her male attire and learn the pretty ways of a marriageable miss. But not before the fair-haired Lord Dantry, encountering Diana in her disguise, invited the young "David Armitage" to spend a week with him in London. What... more » Diana didn't foresee was that freedom had a price -- and the price could be the man she loved.
It seems as if there will be no need to find a husband for Diana, the fifth daughter of Charles Armitage, the hard-drinking huntsman and country vicar. For Diana shares her father's passion for the hunt, secretly posing as a man in order to participate in a sport that is considered too vulgar for a lady in Regency England.
Her four elder sisters have married well, but Diana fears she will never be as desirous to wed a man as she is to be one. She was born to have a man's freedom to do and say what she wishes, to move about without restraint--or so she thinks until, disguised as David Armitage, she gets a bitter taste of tawdry town life
DIana decides that life as a lady might not be so bad--if only she were permitted to hunt! But Lady Godolphin, Diana's well-meaning if eccentric cousin, will have none of that. She was instrumental, she tells herself, in finding fine husbands for the older Armitage girls, and she is determined not to fail Diana.
A certain Viscount, Lord Charles Dantry, does not play by the rules, however, upsetting all the best-laid plans to turn Diana in a proper young lad. Diana the huntress becomes the hunted and leanrs that there is another, infinitely more exciting, kind of chase in this irresistible addition to the Regency novels that have won Marion Chesney a devoted readership.« less