A Princess Born — Sandra Madden

What Happens When The Woman...

Edmund Wydville's first surprise upon returning to his country estate was that Kate Beadle was fully grown--and uncommonly beautiful. His second surprise was his own honorable intent. If he could not have the gardener's adopted daughter for himself, no one would fault him for finding her a good match.

He Thinks Is All Wrong...

Except Kate, of course. She'd loved Edmund since childhood, but she also understood that nobility had no business wooing women of uncertain origin. Still, she didn't want substitute suitors. She wanted to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding her rose and crown ring, which she believed would lead to the truth about her family.

...Turns Out To Be All Too Right?

A simple plan? Not quite, in either case. Because Kate would uncover something both shocking and dangerous about her birth parents--and Edmund would find that love was far less concerned with noble blood than with the way stubborn, spirited Kate made him feel.