What a Widow Wants

Widowed by the Battle of Waterloo, the ladies of Lyttlefield Park return in “a gripping story of love that won’t be denied and hard-fought happiness” ( Fresh Fiction ).   The widowed Lady Stephen Tarkington, Fanny to her friends, has finished mourning her cad of a husband and is ready to enjoy her freedom. The kind of freedom neither a gently bred miss nor a close-watched wife is permitted: dressing up as Aphrodite for a masquerade, drawing gentlemen away from the party, and hinting at late