![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bertha has her own struggles in the strict hierarchy of the servants’ quarters and with her wavering loyalty for her spoiled mistress. Part of the story is told from the point of view of Cora’s biracial maid, Bertha. A scandal involving the duke’s spiteful ex-lover could destroy Cora’s happiness. Her actions upset her husband but amuse her haughty mother-in-law. She stumbles through the demanding English protocol, making numerous mistakes. Is he only after her money? Cora tries to fit in with her new family, who disdain her as an upstart American. Cora falls in love and believes her new husband loves her as well. Cora is drawn to the brooding Duke of Wareham, and soon he asks her to marry him. She meets a handsome young duke after a fall from her horse and is taken to his crumbling estate to recuperate. After he turns her down, Cora accompanies her mother to London, where rich American girls are marrying into the impoverished aristocracy. To escape her overbearing, social-climbing mother, Cora begs her childhood sweetheart to marry her before her mother sweeps her off to England in search of a titled match. Cora Cash is a beautiful and fabulously wealthy young woman in the 1890s – the decadent Gilded Age. ![]()
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