A True Southern Belle
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Charlie Winter has the perfect life simply because she is the talk of the County and not many people like her. She enjoys her uniqueness, and does not care that she has long irritated her mother to the point where her mother is slowly coming to hate her.
Jason Asher is a rebel, a scoundrel, and a cad. He's not accepted anywhere, but when Bella's - his sister - husband leaves her, pregnant, for a business trip, Jason wants to act like the big brother he deserves. But he clashes with Charlie, and when Bella's life suddenly is in danger, Charlie is the only one who can help her; you can imagine what happens when a girl stays overnight in a man's house in the 1860's, even with another woman - though bedridden - is present.
This story goes through Charlie and Jason's rocky start, and still worse, their marriage, which is full of lies, and secrets, and judgments that neither one bothers to sort out. To find out the end, I only ask you to read, for my lips are sealed. Enjoy.
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