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Follow the Heart by Kaye Dacus (Paperback / softback, 2013)

Set during the Industrial Revolution and the Great Exhibition of 1851, Follow the Heart is a sitting-room romance with the feel of a Regency-era vel but the fashions and techlogical advances of the mid-Victorian age. Kate and Christopher Dearing s lives turn upside down when their father loses everything in a railroad land speculation. The siblings are shipped off to their mother s brother in England with one edict: marry money. At twenty-seven years old, Kate has the stigma of being passed over by eligible men many times and that was before she had dowry. Christopher would like thing better than to make his own way in the world; and with a law degree and expertise in the burgeoning railroad industry, he was primed to do just that in America. Though their uncle tries to ensure Kate and Christopher find matrimonial prospects only among the highest echelon of British society, their attentions stray to a gardener and a governess. While Christopher has options that would enable him to lay his affections where he chooses, he cant let the burden of their family s finances crush his sister. Trying to push her feelings for the handsome but t wealthy gardener aside, Kate s prospects brighten when a wealthy viscount shows interest in her. But is marrying for the financial security of her family the right thing to do, when her heart is telling her she s making a mistake? Mandates . . . money . . . matrimony. Who will follow the heart?

Place of Publication
Nashville
Series Title
Great Exhibition Novel
Author Biography
Kaye Dacus earned a Master of Arts in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and received a Christy Award nomination for her first published novel Stand-In Groom. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Date of Publication
01/05/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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