Black sheep - Georgette Heyer

He had nothing to recommend him but a smile and she was surely too, and had too much commonsense, to be beguiled by a smile. . . Miss Abigail Wendover`s efforts to detatch her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Caverleigh. The black sheep of his family, a cynical out-rageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past-that would be a connection more shocking even than Fanny`s unwise liason with his nephew! But Abbey, adept at managing her sweet, silly sister Selina, her lively niece and the host of her admirers among Bath`s cicumscribed society, has less success in managing her own unruly heart.