Follow the Heart
Book 1 of The Great Exhibition Series
ISBN: (to come)
B&H Publishing Group
May 2013
Kate and Christopher Dearing’s lives are turned upside down when their father loses everything in a railroad speculation and they’re shipped off to their mother’s cousin, Sir Robert, in England with one edict: marry money. At twenty-seven years old, Kate is no debutante . . . and has the stigma of being passed over by eligible men many times—and that was before she had no dowry. Christopher would like nothing better than to make his own way in the world; and with a law degree and expertise in the burgeoning railroad industry, he was primed to do just that—in America.
Though their cousin tries to ensure Kate and Christopher find matrimonial prospects only among the highest echelon of British society, their attentions stray elsewhere… to a gardener and a governess.
While Christopher has a chance to make his own way in life—which would enable him to lay his affections where he chooses—he cannot let the burden of their family’s financial situation to crush his sister. Trying to push her feelings for the handsome—but not wealthy—gardener aside, Kate’s prospects brighten when a friend of Sir Robert’s, a wealthy viscount, shows favorable interest in her. But will marrying for the financial security of her family be the right thing to do, when her heart is telling her she’s making a mistake?
Mandates . . . money . . . matrimony. Who will follow the heart?
Don’t worry, that’s not the actual cover, just a placeholder image!
Oh my word it took me for ever to figure out why these photos were for something I have not read. I guess you are writing it?
Yes—this is the book that I’m writing right now. The manuscript is due to my publisher on May 1. Unfortunately, they have a one-year turnaround on it, so it won’t actually hit shelves (real or virtual) until May 2013.