I am shallow enough to say that I do sometimes pick a book by it's cover. So, confession made, I'll say if I knew nothing else about Harper St. George's new historical romance series, I would have picked up the books for the gorgeous covers alone. Luckily for me, the stories have fulfilled the promise of those eye-catching covers.
The first of the Gilded Age Heiresses series features American heiress August Crenshaw whose parents have brought her and her sister to London to marry into the aristocracy. The problem is that August would rather continue to help run the family business, Crenshaw Iron Works. She's seen what marrying into the aristocracy has done to her good friend Camille and she wants none of it. Given August's obstinacy, her parents threaten to marry her younger sister off to the impoverished Evan Sterling, Duke of Rothschild. Rothschild is property rich and cash poor due to his father's poor financial decisions. If he does not marry a heiress it would be left to his younger sisters to save the family. And that he cannot bear. August has met the Duke and is convinced that he is no match for Violet who actually has feelings for another. Her parents are adamant however; one of their daughters will marry the Duke. Backed into a corner (and vehemently insisting to herself that she's not wildly attracted to Evan), August agrees to have the Duke court her.
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ugust and Evan have incredible chemistry and while both are coming into this relationship with a fair amount of reluctance the attraction they feel for one another cannot be denied. As they get to know one another they find that perhaps they may have more in common, including their life goals, then they realized. They find love (of course) and in book two of the series, The Devil and the Heiress, Violet gets her happy-ever-after too. And take a look at that cover!