The Marrying Kind

the book opens with a most uncommon reunion of two sisters-each in their late twenties and happily unmarried, each leading very independent but totally opposite lives. jess seton, a woman of impulse and impatient nature, besieged by men in fasionable london; laura seton, easygoing and charming old-fashioned, enjoying the leisurely pace and pastoal delight of the rural country town she has chosen as home. together, jess and laura are compelled to meet a new and unexpected challenge, protecting the reputation of their widowed father, the exasperating and endearing claude seton, a free spirit who has suddenly gotten himself into trouble in the art world.