Hero: Duke Evan is in a need of a rich wife to relieve him of his debt. Little does she realize that every stunt she pulls to make him call off the wedding only makes him like her even more.ĬW: 1 two-page conversation on colonized India where Britishers weren't portrayed in bad light. She decides to show Rothschild that she's no typical London wallflower. He wants August, and he always gets what he wants.īut August won't go peacefully to her fate. But after meeting her fiery sister, he realizes Violet isn't the heiress he wants. He's recently inherited the title only to find his coffers empty, and with countless lives depending on him, he can't walk away from the fortune a Crenshaw heiress would bring him. August refuses to leave her sister to the mercy of a loveless marriage.Įvan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, has no intention of walking away from the marriage. When it's clear that August's outrageously progressive ways render her unsuitable for a respectable match, her parents offer up her younger sister to the highest entitled bidder instead. But unlike her peers, it isn't some stuffy British Lord she wants wrapped around her finger-it's Crenshaw Iron Works, the family business. Even a fortune forged in railroads and steel can't buy entrance into the upper echelons of Victorian high society-for that you need a marriage of convenience.Īmerican heiress August Crenshaw has aspirations.
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