As usual, the poor relations are in need of money to finance the hotel and it is up to Colonel Sandhurst to come to the rescue. After coming across Sir Randolph's daughter Frederica, who is running away to escape an awful marriage, the Colonel devises a plan to force Sir Randolph to settle his outstanding hotel bill and save Frederica.

The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London and its owners are preparing to sell up and retire - but one last romantic adventure awaits them! Driven into hiding at the hotel by a tyrannous father and a rich but wizened suitor, Lady Jane Fremney attempts to end her life.

Lady Rose Summer's debut in high society turns out to be a disaster. Her father suspects that her fiance is a first-class scoundrel & the couple soon break up. Rose attends the last-chance soiree at Telby Castle for aristocratic women with dubious matrimonial prospects, when a malicious guest is found dead in suspicious circustances."

Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has left behind the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery comes to a merciful end when she learns of the untimely death of an acquaintance.

Lady Rose Summer may be a beauty, but she's still a disappointment to her parents. So when she becomes engaged to Captain Harry Cathcart, it's a relief of sorts. Rose befriends Dolly Tremaine, an exquisite country girl, but when Dolly is found floating in the river, Harry must step up and solve the mystery of her death.

Lady Rose's engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India. However, in a fit of rage, she threatens Harry's seductive new client. The next day a body is found.

A dead employer's legacy of 5000 allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure travelling the English countryside by stagecoach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of Miss Emily Freemantle, a spoilt violet-eyed beauty fleeing an arranged marriage to a rake she has never met."

No sooner does Miss Pym board her next stagecoach than she finds herself embroiled in the plight of Miss Belinda Earle, a spirited heiress banished to Bath after swearing off the marriage market. When the coach founders near Baddell Castle, and Marquis of Frenton comes to the rescue, Miss Pym decides to give fate a hand.

Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven her sheltered life, someone perhaps like their handsome travelling companion, Lord Augustus Railton.

Lady Beatrice is fleeing an arranged marriage by stagecoach to Brighton, where the proud beauty meets her match in Miss Hannah Pym who is determined to find her a proper beau.