Lady Mathilda - The Missing Eagles - E-book - ePub

The Missing EaglesCairo, Egypt 1813The Bakhoum and Nacif families were arranging a marriage. The dowry was negotiated in letters, some in pictorial writings to disguise the possession of priceless family heirlooms.  When a few notes fall in the hands of a British naval officer, family members go missing.  Lady Mathilda A Missing Eagles NovellaAgainst her better judgment, Mathilda Sears takes a job as a lady's companion in London.  Complications arise when polite society goes abuzz over a missing shipment, and then a certain lord, aware of the conspiracy, takes a marked interest in Mathilda.  As the daughter of a baron, the match is deemed tolerable, but hardly a brilliant one for his lordship.
However, the courtship becomes neither here nor there when Mathilda learns that the shipment is a family..