title: The Fortune Hunters: Dazzling Women and the Men They Married
author:  Charlotte Hays 
description: <DIV><DIV><B>Charlotte Hays</B> has been a gossip columnist for the <I>New York Daily News</I>, <I>The New York Observer</I>, and <I>The Washington Times</I>. She is coauthor of <I>Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral</I> and <I>Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch that Bouquet: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Wedding.</I></DIV></DIV>
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  Copyright © 2020 Sarah A. Hoyt
  
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  What If He Were To Pick Me?
  
  Alyx Silver
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Netherfield and New Lace
  
  Word that a young man of large fortune had rented the long-vacant estate of
  Netherfield ran through the small, sleepy community of Meryton like a
  lightning bolt.
  
  After all, a single young man in possession of a vast fortune must be in need
  of a wife, and where could he find one better than in in the spinster-heavy
  streets of Meryton.
  
  With most of the local young 