Follow the Heart

Author: Kaye Dacus
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Set during the Industrial Revolution and the Great Exhibition of 1851, Follow the Heart is a #sitting-room romance# with the feel of a Regency-era novel but the fashions and technological advances of the mid-Victorian age.Kate and Christopher Dearing#s lives turn upside down when their father loses everything in a railroad land speculation. The siblings are shipped off to their mother#s brother in England with one edict: marry money.At twenty-seven years old, Kate has the stigma of being passed over by eligible men many times#and that was before she had no dowry. Christopher would like nothing better than to make his own way in the world; and with a law degree and expertise in the burgeoning railroad industry, he was primed to do just that#in America.Though their uncle tries to ensure Kate and Christopher find matrimonial prospects only among the highest echelon of British society, their attentions stray to a gardener and a governess.While Christopher has options that would enable him to lay his affections where he chooses, he cannot let the burden of their family#s finances crush his sister. Trying to push her feelings for the handsome#but not wealthy# gardener aside, Kate#s prospects brighten when a wealthy viscount shows interest in her. But is marrying for the financial security of her family the right thing to do, when her heart is telling her she#s making a mistake?Mandates . . . money . . . matrimony. Who will follow the heart?