Fairest of Them All

the long version

MY FAIR LADY A true gentleman, Daniel Canty had worked furiously to achieve the high esteem of the English nobility. Therefore, it was more his reputation than the promise of wealth that compelled him to accept the ninth earl of Hawkenge's challenge to turn an orphan wild child into a lady. But the girl who'd been recovered from the African interior was hardly an orphan --- and his beautiful charge was hardly a child. Truly, Talitha was a woman --- and the most compelling Daniel had ever seen. But the mute firebrand also posed the greatest threat he had ever faced. In the tempestuous Talitha lay a danger far more perilous than the shadowy figure who'd murdered her mother and far more ruinous than the temptation of her unrestrained passion. In the girl's soft kiss was the jeopardy which Daniel had fought all his life to avoid: the danger of losing his heart.