False Fortune
She wanted to help him He wanted to protect her

At six and twenty, Susanna Harte thought little could discompose her. Even when her father took a new bride half his age.

When her father presented his new wife with the Harte diamonds that rightfully belonged to Susanna, even then she turned the other cheek.

But when her stepmother's mysterious nephew, Hugh Russell, arrived on a dark and stormy New Year's Eve, Susanna knew her well-ordered life was soon to become only a fond memory.