American Baroness

the long version

**American Upstart** She was sold like a racehorse to the highest bidder: Julian Herriot, Baron de Verlaine. Regina Pierce, with her beauty and an embarrassment of riches, exchanged a gold miner's dowry for one of the oldest titles in France. Sheltered, spoiled Regina entered a world where marriage was business and love was something else. Something like ravishing Simone de Lamartine, who made it clear that money was Regina's only passport to aristocracy — that Julian was forever beyond her reach. Theirs might have been a marriage of convenience like many others, but for one thing: Regina had fallen desperately in love with the man she married. And she was determined to win him — by any means!