The Generous Vine — Elizabeth Renier

When Kate and Richard were children, they promised eternal love and devotion. Kate kept to her promise, Richard could not; he was to the manor born while Kate was the daughter of a seamstress. Richard wants a gentler, more submissive woman that the beautiful, but headstrong Kate.

Arabella - fair, delicate, the perfect lady - captures Richard's heart, enchanting him completely. Heartsick, Kate watches in silence. Too proud to claim her love, she buries her grief in a whirl of illegal activity off the Sussex coast.

And then Richard, in a test of loyalty, courage, and true love, grows into the man Kate has always believed him to be, needing and wanting the woman she is.