title: The American Duchess
author: Wolf, Joan
description: A SPIRITED YOUNG BEAUTY PAYS A HANDSOME PRICE FOR AN ENGLISH LORD
  
  THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER
  
  Young and lovely Tracy Bodmin was as spirited and independent as the America she came from-but love for her father made her yield to his heart's desire. Though William Bodmin had made his fortune in the New World, he dreamed of a title for his daughter in his native England-and his wealth won a marriage proposal to Tracy from the proud Duke of Hastings.
  
  Thus it was that Tracy voyaged full-sail into the world of the aristocracy as wife to one of its most splendid lords. Behind she left Adam Lancaster, the handsome, rugged New Englander who adored her. Ahead lay fear and danger in the arms of a powerful, magnetic man whose mode of life and love she did not know...
  
  Hero: Adrian Deincourt, Duke of Hastings
  Heroine: Tracy Bodmin