Promises Author:Catherine Gaskin An abandoned child in a turn of the century English mill town, Lally had a bleak future. She was too young, too distraught, too hungry even, to dream of the simple comforts of a warm hearth, let alone entertain visions of becoming the mistress of a grand manor, the wife of a dashing war hero, and eventually the titled hostess of a glittering sal... more »on in London. Yet all this was to be so-by the grace of a stranger... Black Jack Pollock knew that by taking in this "bit of filth" and raising her as his child, he would once again be scored for an ill-bred parvenu. But he recognized only one aristocracy, that of the noble spirit and the steadfastly passionate heart and these things shone in the dark and troubled eyes of the little foundling he adopted.« less