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Set in nineteenth-century England, Patrice Kindl’s young-adult Regency romance novel Keeping the Castle follows seventeen-year-old Althea Crawley, a poor, beautiful, and outspoken young woman who must support her family. Althea searches for a wealthy suitor, courting the dashing Lord Boring and his rude relative, Hugh Fredericks, while navigating social events and personal challenges in a quest to secure her family's future.