The Gilded Heiress

Can a marriage contract turn into the hottest love affair of the Gilded Age?

THEA:

I needed his title. He needed my money. Simple business deal, right? Wrong.

I'm Thea Dumont. Half-Black heiress to my father's railroad fortune in 1895 New York. Society ladies slam their doors in my face despite my expensive Paris clothes and all our money.

When Dad's business faces ruin, I agree to marry Lord James Harrington-a British aristocrat with an ancient title and an empty bank account. Just sign the papers, save the railroad, gain social acceptance. No feelings required.

Except... the first time he touches me, my body catches fire. His mouth on mine makes me forget our contract. His hands on my skin make me want things I never knew I needed.

Now I'm caught between my handsome British husband and Daniel, my childhood friend who suddenly confesses he wants me too.

I told myself this was just business. So why does my heart race every time James looks at me? And why can't I stop imagining what else that proper English mouth can do?


JAMES:

I was desperate. My ancestral home is crumbling, and debts are piling up. An American heiress seemed the perfect solution, even one with brown skin that makes London society whisper.

I didn't expect Thea Dumont. Smart. Beautiful. Challenging. A woman who sees right through my aristocratic mask.

Our wedding night was supposed to be a formality. Just enough to make the marriage legal. But one taste of her lips and I was lost. Now I can't keep my hands off my own wife, pulling her into boathouses and libraries whenever we're alone.

I watch other men look at her-especially Cooper, her childhood friend who clearly wants what's mine. It drives me wild with a possessiveness I never knew I had.

This was supposed to be just a contract. Money for a title. But when she moans my name in the darkness, I forget everything except making her mine in every way possible.

Our bodies knew the truth before we did: this arrangement was always going to be about more than business.

In the ballrooms of Newport and the bedrooms of London, two people who married for money discover the most valuable thing they gained was each other...in the most intimate ways possible.