Follow the Heart (A Great Exhibition Novel Book 1)

Set during the Industrial Revolution and the Great Exhibition of 1851, Follow the Heart is a €œsitting-room romance€ with the feel of a Regency-era novel but the fashions and technological advances of the mid-Victorian age.

Kate and Christopher Dearing€s lives turn upside down when their father loses everything in a railroad land speculation. The siblings are shipped off to their mother€s brother in England with one edict: marry money.

At twenty-seven years old, Kate has the stigma of being passed over by eligible men many times€"and that was before she had no dowry. Christopher would like nothing better than to make his own way in the world; and with a law degree and expertise in the burgeoning railroad industry, he was primed to do just that€"in America.

Though their uncle tries to ensure Kate and Christopher find matrimonial prospects only among the highest echelon of British society, their attentions stray to a gardener and a governess.

While Christopher has options that would enable him to lay his affections where he chooses, he cannot let the burden of their family€s finances crush his sister. Trying to push her feelings for the handsome€"but not wealthy€" gardener aside, Kate€s prospects brighten when a wealthy viscount shows interest in her. But is marrying for the financial security of her family the right thing to do, when her heart is telling her she€s making a mistake?

Mandates . . . money . . . matrimony. Who will follow the heart?