Publisher's Synopsis
Desperate Remedies in a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a position as a maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman he had loved her father, but could not marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but machinations of Adclyffe miss, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman he does not like, and the urgent need to support his ailing brother driving Cytherea to accept the Eneas hand Manston, Miss Adclyffe illegitimate son, whose first wife is believed to have perished in a fire.
