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When her father dies suddenly, nineteen-year-old Marianne and her family are left in dire straits. Distraught over the idea that she must now marry a haughty aristocrat to help her family, Marianne visits her great-aunt. On the way there, Marianne meets a mysterious gentleman. As soon as he looks at her, she is overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia, which confuses her. Marianne leaves without asking his name. What she doesn't know is that he's actually Drew, the Marquis of Marlbeck, and that she will meet him again in an unexpected place...

Cressie may be the daughter of a count, but her family has never let her forget that she is the most plain of all of her sisters. Now, years after her debut in London high society, she still hasn't found a husband...and her father, the stern Count Armstrong, tells her she will now serve as her stepbrothers' tutor. Left with no choice but to obey his orders, she arrives at her stepmother's house, where she meets Giovanni di Matteo. He's a world-famous portrait artist who's been hired to paint a picture of her stepbrothers. Cressie doesn't know how to respond when the gorgeous Signor di Matteo tells her he wants to paint her picture, but before long, she feels the distance between the two of them growing smaller. Little does she know that Giovanni hasn't been entirely forthcoming about his background...*This work is originally colored.