Jude Deveraux portrays the power of a woman set on a bold course for true love -- and the glory of ful'lling a magni'cent promise. River Lady Handsome plantation owner Wesley Stanford would barely recall the poverty-stricken young girl named Leah Simmons who adored him from afar years agos.Now, in an unexpected twist of fate -- a chance encounter on the Virginia riverfront -- he will become Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a new life in untamed Kentucky, Wesley discovers that the bride he hopes to abandon is passionate, proud, and brave -- and may be the woman he cannot live without.
"Jude Deveraux portrays the power of a woman set on a bold course for true love -- and the glory of ful'lling a magni'cent promise. River Lady Handsome plantation owner Wesley Stanford would barely recall the poverty-stricken young girl named Leah Simmons who adored him from afar years agos.Now, in an unexpected twist of fate -- a chance encounter on the Virginia riverfront -- he will become Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a new life in untamed Kentucky, Wesley discovers that the bride he hopes to abandon is passionate, proud, and brave -- and may be the woman he cannot live without."@en
"Een mooi, maar arm meisje in het Virginia van rond 1800 droomt van een huwelijk met een rijke grootgrondbezitter."
"In eighteenth-century Virginia, despite her poverty Leah Simmons struggles to achieve her dream of marriage to Wesley Stanford."@en
"In eighteenth-century Virginia, despite her poverty Leah Simmons struggles to achieve her dream of marriage to Wesley Stanford and follows him into his new life in Kentucky."@en
"In eighteenth-century Virginia, despite her poverty Leah Simmons struggles to achieve her dream of marriage to Wesley Stanford and follows him into his new life in Kentucky."
"Aristocratic Wesley Stanford becomes the reluctant husband of an impoverished waif, Leah Simmons, but gradually discovers that his unwanted bride is a proud, courageous, passionate beauty."
"As a child, Leah was given a $20 gold piece from handsome Wesley Stanford and vows to marry him in the future. When she grows up and is ready to marry, she finds that he is engaged to someone else."@en
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