Fair Fortune Author:Rebecca Ward IF HIS HEART BELONGED TO ANOTHER, WHY DID HE KISS HER WITH SUCH LONGING? — With her mother's failing health and their rather reduced circumstances, Margaret Hannay had little choice but to grin and bear her position as a paid companion to the very dour and very difficult Lady Vere. — Though gently born and bred, Margaret had none of the uppish... more »ness of her class: she made friends of neighbors and servants. Which is how she decided that the new groom at the next estate was almost surely a gentleman. But what dire circumstances had forced him to such labor?
As the groom's tale unfolded, Margaret's yearning for his ardent kiss grew. Alas, she soon recognized an unlikely rival -- a diamond of the first water whose interest belied the groom's modest disguise....« less