He needs her fortune. She never expected to need his heart.
Jacqueline Mullinax is no typical society lady. Her family's thriving vegetable-canning business has made them wealthy in St. Paul, Minnesota—wealthy enough that Jackie has spent her whole life fending off men who want the money more than they want her. When her family escapes to London for the summer while their new home is being built, she expects adventure, not another fortune hunter.
The second son of a duke, Lord Rafford de Moulton, has spent his life putting duty before desire. When his older brother marries for love, Rafford is left to shoulder the responsibility of preserving their ancestral estate—and he's determined to do whatever it takes to save it.
Unfortunately, the fortune that could secure his family's future belongs to the American heiress whose family's canning empire he considers thoroughly beneath him. A courtship seems the perfect solution—until the woman he intended to marry for her money proves impossible to dismiss.
The more Rafford pursues her, the harder it becomes to remember their courtship was ever a business arrangement—and the more he realizes he wants the woman, not just her fortune.
But Jackie has heard every version of "I love you" from men who meant "I love your money." She won't risk her heart again for a man who can't prove the difference.
Rafford must decide whether saving his family's estate is worth risking the truth: that he wants Jackie for reasons that have nothing to do with money at all.
Each Gilded Age Belles romance is a complete standalone featuring a different couple and guaranteed HEA. Start anywhere in the series!
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Jacqueline Mullinax is no typical society lady. Her family's thriving vegetable-canning business has made them wealthy in St. Paul, Minnesota—wealthy enough that Jackie has spent her whole life fending off men who want the money more than they want her. When her family escapes to London for the summer while their new home is being built, she expects adventure, not another fortune hunter.
The second son of a duke, Lord Rafford de Moulton, has spent his life putting duty before desire. When his older brother marries for love, Rafford is left to shoulder the responsibility of preserving their ancestral estate—and he's determined to do whatever it takes to save it.
Unfortunately, the fortune that could secure his family's future belongs to the American heiress whose family's canning empire he considers thoroughly beneath him. A courtship seems the perfect solution—until the woman he intended to marry for her money proves impossible to dismiss.
The more Rafford pursues her, the harder it becomes to remember their courtship was ever a business arrangement—and the more he realizes he wants the woman, not just her fortune.
But Jackie has heard every version of "I love you" from men who meant "I love your money." She won't risk her heart again for a man who can't prove the difference.
Rafford must decide whether saving his family's estate is worth risking the truth: that he wants Jackie for reasons that have nothing to do with money at all.
Each Gilded Age Belles romance is a complete standalone featuring a different couple and guaranteed HEA. Start anywhere in the series!
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- American Heiress × English Lord
Marriage for Money
Slow-Burn Romance
Medium Steam, Open-Door Romance
Third-Person Dual POV
Guaranteed HEA
Genre: Historical Romance