Catching the Rose
A southern belle rebelling against an arranged marriage finds love in the opening months of the American Civil War.
Veronica Vernon is a headstrong southern belle determined to marry for love...or, at least not marry the man her uncle has chosen for her. A girl with a penchant for traveling, Veronica leaves her plantation in South Carolina for a boarding house in Richmond, Virginia. There, she befriends southern-born Yankee, Amy Williams--and through Amy, the enigmatic Brad Williams.
Brad Williams, also a southern-born Yankee, felt fairly ambivalent to the war until Veronica, the embodiment of everything he suddenly realizes he dislikes, stepped into his life. Determined to enlighten Veronica, sparks -- flirtatious and contentious -- fly. For she is determined to find a man who will pretend to be her fiancé and get Bentley off her back, and he is determined to be as uncooperative as possible!
Will Veronica get her wish and evade marriage? Will Brad come to understand Veronica's plight as something more than her southern dramatics at work? Read to find out!
384 pages. Published December 2002. Buy now!
