Rejected by the incomparable Miss Milborne for his unsteadiness of character, wild Lord Sheringham is bent on avenging Fate & coming into his fortune. But the very first woman he should see is Hero Wantage, the young & charmingly unsophisticated chit, who has loved him since childhood.. . Fridays Child is a typically sweeping historical romance by the queen of the genre, who for fifty years won the hearts of readers worldwide & has found a new devoted readership in the twenty-first century.