Beautiful and headstrong American heiress Margaret van Alden is determined to marry for love. Why, then, does her heart beat faster at the sight of Trevor St. James, an unsentimental rake if ever there was one?

"Funny and wrenching, heartwarming and emotional... can't fail to make you laugh and cry." Patricia Gaffney on Conor's WayLaura Lee Guhrke combines a strong plot with wonderful characters in this historically accurate and appealing romance set in nineteenth-century Europe.