Inordinately rich, Lady Arabella is used to fending off fortune-hunters--except now such attentions have become deadly Arabella is alone in the world, so turns to Charles for protection. But, for safety's sake, she cannot let her heart rule her head...

Elegant, beautiful and inordinately rich, Lady Arabella Marshall is used to fending off fortune-hunters' unwanted flattery–but now such attentions have become deadly!

After a surprise opportunity presents itself, a naive Irish immigrant girl, Miss Ita Connor, pretends to be a transplanted Southern belle in order to attain the life she dreamed of but in the end is it worth it? Only time will tell. The impatience of youth drives her destiny In her desperation to escape the mid-1800s New York slums in which her family landed originally from the auld sod. "Angels will whisper in your ear if you let them." Go raibh maith agat: That there may be good at you Ta failte romhat: There is a welcome before you

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Elegant, beautiful and inordinately rich, Lady Arabella Marshall is used to fending off fortune-hunters' unwanted flattery—but now such attentions have become deadly! Lady Arabella is quite alone in the world, so she turns to the aloof and enigmatic Charles Hunter for protection. She instinctively trusts this quietly handsome gentleman. But, for safety's sake, Arabella cannot let her heart rule her head….