Gilded Splendor — Rosalind Laker

It proves to be a fateful meeting. He is only a carpenter's apprentice. She is a young lady of genteel birth. In the summer of their youth they share romance and an innocent dream -- he to become a renowned cabinet-maker and she to become his patroness.

Fate provides many unexpected twists and turns before fame comes to Thomas Chippendale and fortune to Isabella Woodleigh -- and not before each of them has discovered the bitter taste of denial. But disappointment does not stop Isabella from commissioning beautiful pieces of furniture from the man she loves and cannot have. Nor does frustration keep Thomas from achieving the just acclaim he so avidly seeks.