Katie Stewart Stone
Melody Foster has been granted every luxury available save one: the ability to love whom she chooses. When her father reveals that she is to marry a wild Scot she's never met, Melody defies him and declares she will never marry without affection. Her choice to marry Richard, a footman in her father's household, prompts her family to disown her, and she goes to London to risk everything for love. But she is blindsided. Without a penny to her name,
...What begins as a pleasant holiday with a new friend in Brighton quickly turns to devastation for Anabelle Milton when she receives the tragic news: her parents are dead. Turned out of the only home she's ever known, Anabelle is sent to live with an aunt and uncle who are strangers to her. Heartbroken, she arrives at Bellingham Cottage, a cozy home on the sprawling grounds of the Bellingham estate, to find an unexpectedly warm welcome—not
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