American Heiress & The Fortune Hunter

Witty moving and brilliantly entertaining THE AMERICAN HEIRESS marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband beautiful vivacious Cora Cash whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts'' suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham married to Ivo the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money Cora soon learns cannot buy everything as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. In 1875 Sisi the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful athletic and intelligent Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband Franz Joseph Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton the only man in Europe who can outride her. Ten years younger than her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte Bay has everything to lose by falling for a woman who can never be his. But Bay and the Empress are as reckless as each other and their mutual attraction is a force that cannot be denied. Full of passion and drama THE FORTUNE HUNTER tells the true story of a nineteenth century Queen of Hearts and a cavalry captain and the struggle between love and duty.