A Damsel in Distress

American composer George Bevan finds himself embroiled in a comedy of errors and mistaken identities when he falls in love with an aristocratic young Englishwoman. George Bevan is an American composer in London working on a musical. He is about to get into a taxicab when a pretty young woman hops in instead and he falls for her hard. The book opens on Lord Marshmoreton working in his castle garden, browned from the sun and looking very much like the gardener rather than the aristocrat he actually his. He is a widower in his late forties and has two children, Percy and Maud, twenty one and twenty respectively. He lives with his sister, Lady Caroline Byng and her stepson Reggie.