Gossamer

From the national bestselling author of Truly a Wife comes a wonderful and tender romance set in nineteenth-century San Francisco. When wealthy businessman James Craig was awakened by heartrending weeping in the night, he thought he was reliving his painful past. But what he found was not his worst nightmare, but a beautiful and fragile dream, who made him yearn for a future ... with her ... Frightened and in desperate straits, Elizabeth Sadler arrived in San Francisco full of hope for a new life. But her hope was destroyed when she found herself alone and penniless. Then, like an angel in the night, an enegmatic stranger heard her cries, gave her comfort--and offered her a job as governess to his four daughters. In his eyes, she saw a love that promised her heaven. But angry whispers surround him--and keep him and his family separate from a town too prejudiced and suspicious to accept them. The ugly rumors, and the shadows of a past tragedy threaten to create an impenetrable barrier between James and Elizabeth. To love him, she must find the courage to stand by him, in the face of an ignorant and fearful society, and her own secret doubts ... Includes a preview of the sequel, A Wanted Man Elizabeth Sadler was penniless. So when the mysterious James Craig asked her to be a nanny to his children, she accepted.But this strange, handsome man -- who had adopted four Chinese girls no one else wanted -- haunted her dreams. The passion that soon flared between them couldn't be denied, but James's bitter past threatened to tear their love apart -- unless she could help him to trust in love When Elizabeth Sadler is rescued from poverty by San Francisco businessman James Craig, who hires her to be governess to his adopted Chinese daughters, she begins to fall in love, despite the ugly rumors she hears about him. Original.