num_pages: 384
description: To tame a tough man, it takes... The Soft Touch .She is a softhearted Baltimore heiress...Lovely but disastrously tenderhearted Diamond Wingate has terrible trouble saying "No": to the poor and unfortunate who beg at her gates; to entrepreneurs with big plans and no money; and worse, to the silver-tongued young men who line up to propose marriage. So far she has managed to keep her three fiancés a secret, insisting she cannot marry until she turns twenty-three. But her birthday--and disaster--are looming....He is a hardheaded Westerner...Rugged, independent "Bear" McQuaid has never taken a dime he didn't earn by his own hard work. But now his dream of building a railroad, so close to coming true, is about to collapse from lack of funds. Approaching Baltimore's infamous "soft touch," he learns she has other assets as a delicate, strawberry blond beauty and shining intelligence--and a fascination for the romance of the railroad. Then Bear uncovers Diamond's embarrassment of riches in fiancés as well as money and charms. Now he must make a finance his dream through a little genteel blackmail, or do it the hard way...by falling in love.
language: English
title: The Soft Touch
titlecomplete: The Soft Touch
genres: Historical, Westerns, Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance
ratings_count: 122
places: Baltimore, Maryland
publisher: Bantam