A Season Abroad — Rebecca Baldwin

Miss Lydia, a young American heiress (and secret novelist), was traveling in Europe with her brother, not so much because of his fragile health, but because she had no wish to marry the man her family had chosen for her. He was stuffy, boring, domineering -- and after her fortune.

Which is why Lydia found herself devilishly attracted to a dashing English rogue, Lord Robert Marchman, whose scandalous reputation had pursued him all the way to Venice. But can a virtuous maiden really fall in love with a villainous charmer? And turn her back on her family?

We shall see....