Patience becomes a lady: the hawthorne diaries i

A teenage orphan is trust into the maze of courtship and mannered society in England during the Jane Austen era... Patience Hawthorne is afraid she doesn't know what love is or whether to trust the gentlemen who so ardently proclaims it. A dashing soldier makes a play for her heart. A past love returns but is unreliable. Will the truth about the past destroy her chances for happiness?