The Reluctant Heiress

the long version

Fortune hunters -- that's who flocked to court her! But Miss Diana Landale, unhappy heiress to an estate of near-gargantuan proportions, would have none of her suitors' sordid folderol: she would marry for love alone. — But the elegant Lord Alexander will not be dissuaded, and Diana may be forced into this most mercenary match. With desperate daring, she schemes to elope with a passionate French lover. So what if her fabulous fortune is forfeit? Yet her plot is foiled: her Frenchman turns tail, and only marriage to Alexander will quash the scandal. Now she's matched to a man who sees past her disguises, and the matrimonal gleam in his eyes becomes most un-mercenary....