Gilded Age Romance
Photo by Trashy Betty Photography
A Sonata for Rosa Maria
In Gilded Age New York, marriages are arranged to benefit the rich. Rose Marie Johnson expects her beau, an acceptable suitor and member of the Four Hundred, to propose marriage. When he chooses to wed another, her mother schemes to force Rosa into wedlock with a wealthy man twice her age.
With his true identity concealed, Miquel Vicario arrives in New York with dreams of achieving fame as a concert pianist and composer. The young Marqués wants to succeed before he is expected to return to Madrid, Spain by his next birthday to resume his royal duties.
Passion ignites when the two meet, but the ladies’ man isn’t looking for a wife, and the heiress must decide whether to accept an arranged marriage or run away.
Cover Art by: Lea Schizas
An Earl for Violet Cathleen
When Violet Cathleen Johnson receives no marriage proposals from eligible men in New York society, her mother whisks her off to England to become a dollar princess to an impoverished aristocrat.
Alexander Hardwicke, Earl of Roxboro, must restore the estate that’s been in his family for centuries and find his father’s killer. The welfare of his mother and duty to the vast estate forces him to marry a woman from America with a large dowry.
Violet falls for the handsome Englishman but soon realizes his goal of obtaining her dowry and solving the mystery of his father’s death is more important than their life together.
Can true love blossom in this arranged marriage, or will their life be one of duty only?