title: The Currency Lass
author: Cooper, Tea
description: She can run but she can't hide   As her father's only heir, Catherine Cottingham expects to inherit their sprawling property in the Hunter Valley. What she doesn't understand is why her father is trying to push her into a marriage to the pompous and repulsive Sydney businessman Henry W. Bartholomew.  When the will is read it becomes clear money, or the lack of it, lay behind her father's plans. Catherine is mortified  as a married woman all her possessions will pass to her husband, the overbearing Bartholomew. Her only alternative is to wait until her twentyfirst birthday and inherit the property in her own right, but can she elude such a determined man until then?  A chance encounter with a travelling circus and its fiery lead performer, Sergey Petrov, offers the perfect solution and Catherine escapes to the goldfields. But there is more to the circus than spangles and sawdust and Catherine finds herself drawn into a farreaching web of fraud and forgery  A stunning new novel from the bestselling author of  The Horse Thief  and  The Cedar Cutter