Bøger af J. B. Wadsworth

Why settle for fate when you can create your own destiny? Molly Baird is a wealthy debutante in 1887 New York City, searching for love in a society riddled with hypocrisy and contradiction. After a series of social faux pas, her mother laments that Molly may be too awkward and lackluster to find a suitable husband. In desperation, Molly relies on an old wives' tale, which states that if she counts ninety-nine white horses, the next unmarried man to tip his hat to her will be the love of her life. But when fate delivers on the promise of the ninety-nine white horses and a young man tips his hat, she loses him in the crowds of a New York City street and supposes he is gone forever. However, her father's financial ruin takes her to live on a Vermont horse farm where she finds that fate has not deserted her, after all-only the man it has delivered is not the one she wants. Now, she must decide whether to accept fate's cruelly-dealt hand or to toss her cards to the wind and set out to forge her own destiny. Ninety-Nine White Horses is an eastern Western-without the guns.

Is love really worth any price? After being driven from his home in Vermont by a mother perched on the edge of insanity and another money-grubbing old woman who won't let him marry the woman he loves, Sheridan Baird seeks his fortune in the steel mills in Pittsburgh. But when his worst fears come true and his love marries another, he wonders if it wouldn't have been better to have perished in the Civil War like his brothers. Then, he meets the attractive and sophisticated Elinor Taylor from Manhattan. Encouraged by the death wish of a good friend and in a reckless bid to seize control of his fortunes, Sheridan moves to Brooklyn, New York, to try to win her heart. Things rarely go according to plan, and he ends up fighting, not only for Elinor's love but also for his very life. Elinor Taylor, the daughter of a wealthy financier from Manhattan, chafes under the constraints of upper-class society. When her parents take it upon themselves to find her a husband from among the snobby, self-important New York elite, she rebels by providing her own bachelor to court. Things veer off course when he falls in love with her, and Elinor and her parents spend Christmas in Pittsburgh, where she meets Sheridan Baird, a steelworker from Vermont. Now, she must determine if she should settle for a safe marriage to a good man from a Knickerbocker family or chase her dream of marrying a man she can both love and respect.