A Manifest Destiny

On the steamer bound for England, Bettina Mowbray welcomes every admiring glance—and quietly bars every admirer from coming near. In mourning black, she carries both a broken heart and a glittering ambition.

Leaving her small American village for the wider world, Bettina has lost the mother she loved above all others. She means to turn her beauty into a place among England’s aristocracy, and Horace Spotswood, the handsome heir to a title, seems to offer love and the life she dreams of. But his cousin Lord Hurdly has made his opposition unmistakable: marry Bettina, and Horace loses his allowance. Bettina meets the threat not with retreat, but with a new determination to win. How much will she risk for the future she has already claimed as her own?

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