The Awakening Heart

The Elusive Miss Elcott
Everyone devoutly desired Dinah Elcott to wed. Her wealthy father sent her to London with enough funds to outfit a princess and orders to put herself on display in the Marriage Mart. Her worldly wise hostess launched her into the social swim. And suitors scenting her fortune closed in on her like ravenous sharks. Dinah, however, had other ideas. She preferred drawing to dancing, painting to persiflage, and freedom to wedlock.

She agreed to pose as a marriageable miss in public only when her hostess's brother, the elegant, ironic Charles Talbot, let her pursue her artistic ambitions in private. It was easy to trust this mocking gentleman to preserve and protect her single state—but it was much harder to trust her own untested and shockingly susceptible heart....