num_pages: 416
description: Your mother could handle men better than anyone I've ever met. She knew exactly what she was doing. You don't.        "I can learn."        "Can you?" He came at her with that lean-hipped walk she found so intimidatingly masculine. "What are you going to do the first time a man stalks up to you and puts his hand on you like this?"        At his touch she went rigid and sucked in an audible gasp of air. "What if he backs you up against a wall?" He pinned her against the soft velvet of the door curtain.        "You have made your point, Mr. Hays. . . ."                THE BEQUESTWhen Gabrielle Antoine arrives in the rough mining town, the convent-bred beauty is shocked by the decadence she finds there--and stunned to learn she has just inherited a bordello from the mother she never knew. Worse, her mother's business partner, Jordan Hays--a rugged, cynical loner--embodies everything Gabrielle fears . . . and
language: English
title: The Bequest
titlecomplete: The Bequest
characters: Gabrielle Antoine, Jordan Hays
genres: Historical Romance, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Western Historical Romance, Drama, Westerns, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 202
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
category: Long Historical Romance
publisher: Ivy Books