A Piccadilly Pursuit
(Gilded Age Belles Romance)
Jacqueline Mullinax is no typical high-society lady, growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her family’s thriving vegetable canning business has catapulted them into newfound wealth. With their new home under construction, Jackie, her sister Nancy, and their mother escape to London for a summer abroad. There, she meets Lord Rafford de Moulton, the second son of a duke whose world couldn’t be more different than hers.
Rafford’s life is ruled by obligation, and he is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements that might derail his mission to preserve the ancestral estate. His older brother married for love, leaving Rafford to shoulder the responsibility of saving the dukedom.
He finds Jackie’s family’s canning empire distasteful and beneath him, yet he can’t ignore the solution she offers to his problems. The fortune she brings could secure the future of his estate, and soon, Rafford pursues a match with Jackie for all the wrong reasons.