Of Worth and Inheritance

Newport, 1895. Clara Whitmore has everything her mother's ambitions could secure—beauty, breeding, and her family's railroad fortune. All she needs is the right marriage to complete her transformation from American heiress to English aristocrat.

London promises everything. A title. A crumbling estate. A viscount named Julian Hawthorne, who needs her money as desperately as she's been taught to need his name. Their alliance should be simple: American capital for English heritage—strategy disguised as romance.

But Clara discovers a truth no one warned her about: the finest houses are often the loneliest, and the weight of centuries can crush even the strongest love.

When scandal forces their engagement into the open and Julian's family secrets surface, Clara must choose between the life she was raised to want and the life she's only beginning to imagine. Between performing perfection and risking everything for authenticity. Between inheriting worth and creating it.

Inspired by the Gilded Age marriages that changed two nations, Of Worth and Inheritance is a sweeping tale of transformation and courage—about a woman who crossed an ocean to find acceptance and discovered instead that the only approval that mattered was her own.