The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

1 March 1811- Today I fell in love.§At the age of ten, Miss Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. Her hair was lamentably brown, her eyes the same muddy color, and her legs, which were uncommonly long, refused to learn anything which might remotely be called grace.§At the age of nineteen, Nigel Bevelstoke, Viscount Turner, kissed the hand of an awkward ten-year-old girl and promised her that one day she d be as beautiful as she was smart.§Eight years later, Miranda is a woman grown, and Turner an embittered widower. But she has never stopped loving him, and she has never stopped hoping that one day he will see her as more than a green girl.