From the back cover
Escaping her cruel stepfather, beautiful raven-haired Contrition Reeves left the farm where she had toiled a lifetime, and embarked on a perilous mission to find her blood father-and bring him to ruin.
Pursued by ruthless bounty hunters, she found shelter with a troupe of actors-and succumbed to the lure of the stage. But it was in the arms of Henry Davenport, the dark handsome society gentleman-wrongly accused of a heinous crime-that she yielded to passion
From the exotic fever of the race track to the exclusive elegance of New York society, from the teeming banks of the Erie Canal, to the dangerous shores of Italy, the journeyed, fugitives from the law-bound by a love that would not set them free.
Escaping her cruel stepfather, beautiful raven-haired Contrition Reeves left the farm where she had toiled a lifetime, and embarked on a perilous mission to find her blood father-and bring him to ruin.
Pursued by ruthless bounty hunters, she found shelter with a troupe of actors-and succumbed to the lure of the stage. But it was in the arms of Henry Davenport, the dark handsome society gentleman-wrongly accused of a heinous crime-that she yielded to passion
From the exotic fever of the race track to the exclusive elegance of New York society, from the teeming banks of the Erie Canal, to the dangerous shores of Italy, the journeyed, fugitives from the law-bound by a love that would not set them free.
Escaping her cruel stepfather, Contrition Reeves left the farm where she has toiled a lifetime and imbarked on a mission to find her blood father and bring him to ruin.
