num_pages: 214
description: When lovely Lady Leonora Fordyce weds Etienne Lambert who is of lowly birth despite his patrician demeanor she saves her profligate father the Earl of Castleford from debtors' prison. But Leonora is spoiled and cannot imagine loving her new husband because he is a bastard rumored to be a servant's child an impoverished orphan who left England and returned from the Colonies a rich enlightened tycoon. Can she change and bestow the affection on her husband he so richly deserves?
language: English
title: The Emerald Necklace
publisher: Signet