The Valentine Legacy - Legacy, Bk 3 Author:Catherine Coulter In the early 1820s, horse racing was a down and dirty sport. James Wyndham, who owns racing stables in both England and America, finds his racing nemesis in red-haired Jessie Warfield, renowned hoyden and champion jockey. Jessie knows as many dirty racing tricks as James does, and when either wins a race, the other's nose gets ru... more »bbed in the dirt.
Jessie has known James for six years, since she was fourteen years old. She often wants to kick him for the way he treats her, but more importantly, she adores him. She just doesn't know how to show it.
When chance throws Jessie out of a tree, landing on top of James, a scandal is born and she is pronounced Ruined. Jessie decides to run away, all the way to England, to James's cousins Marcus and Duchess Wyndham. When James arrives, laden with guilt, he finds Jessie totally changed -- a girl who has undergone a transformation worthy of Pygmalion!
Will James do the right thing and undo Jessie's Ruin by marrying her? And what about Jessie's nightmares that seem to call up something terrible from her childhood?« less