Sapphire — Helen Ashfield

SHE WAS TRAPPED BY POVERTY -- AND ONLY ONE MAN COULD SET HER CAPTIVE HEART FREE...

Beautiful raven-haired Sapphire Grant was but a penniless, parson's daughter in a poor
Mining village. Yet her loving spirit and laughing eyes were treasured jewels money could never buy. Devoted to teaching reading and writing to the poor children of the Mines, she happily accepted the Earl of Stonehurst's handsome offer for her services in tutoring his son. Ashton Howard and his pretty sister, Arminta -- unaware fate had cast its die for all three young hearts.

For the innocent Sapphire had blossomed into a breathtaking beauty Ashton could not resist. But his title and position were his prison...and poverty was hers. And it is only after cruel violence bestows its wrath and terrible tragedy strikes...that Sapphire finds love in the arms of the only man who can claim her heart...