Penelope Foster, student of Miss Bell's Finishing School, first lost her parents and then lost her guardian. Her new guardian, the Duke of Blackbourne, is reluctant to leave behind his Naval career in order to run his new estate and manage his ward. Nicholas is not happy about his situation and Pene
The Heiress
โ Scribed by Deveraux, Jude
- Book ID
- 108600345
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Series
- Montgomery 6
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780743417396
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โฆ Synopsis
Jamie Montgomery, an impoverished Elizabethan knight, is elated when he is assigned to escort Axia, the Lancaster heiress, to the castle of her betrothed. If only she will fall in love with Jamie 00 as Jamie's devoted older sister predicts 00 the family's financial woes will be solved. But Axia, who has spent her life closely guarded by her father's servants, is not the shy, cossetted flower Jamie expects. She's a hoyden, hell-bent on enjoying her precious moments of liberty before her marriage to a man chosen by her remote, eccentric father. After curtly informing Jamie not to bother declaring his love for her -- as all poor, handsome men seem wont to do -- Axia makes his life a misery, sneaking off to the marketplace, nearly breaking her neck on a runaway horse, and doing everything possible to delay the trip. Though she dare not admit it, even to herself, Axia dreads being wed to a stranger. Suddenly Jamie realizes that he savors even her most barbed words life the rarest...
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