The Arrangement The time is 1897 the place is Cincinnati and beautiful Letitia Allan at the age of seventeen seems doomed to a predictable life devoid of excitement and romance On the verge of a marriage arranged by her parents to a man she does not love Letitia suddenly finds herself swept along by a tide of events that threatens to engulf her In the course of her struggle to save her family from seemingly inevitable disaster Letitia discovers in herself unsuspected reserves of strengthand a passionate abiding love for the man of her own choosing despite the opposition of her overbearing mother and the pressures of hidebound Society Rebellious defiant ahead of her time Letitia is every inch a heroineand every inch a woman