Maggie -- Her Marriage — Taylor Caldwell

Beautiful, rebellious, and proud, young Maggie Hamilton was determined to rise above the crude, impoverished life her blacksmith father had imposed on the family.

The town women laughed at Maggie's ambition -- until John Hobart, the richest, most powerful man in the county, fell in love with her.

John had not dreamt of marrying her; he had set out to seduce her. But Maggie would not be seduced; the price she had set was more than marriage. And if this man couldn't meet it, she would find another who could.....