A beautiful girl sits beside him, but she leaves his care to another in what he assumes is shyness. Will wakes up in a strange room with vague memories of being caught in a thunderstorm as he began to search for shelter for the night after making his way to Newport from New York City. Her father insists that she spend time helping at her brother's homeless shelter to understand how privileged she is, and her wariness of love and marriage is tempered when a mysterious young man with intense blue eyes is brought, cold and wet, to the shelter doorstep one night. She would much rather stay home and read than socialize or, worse, select a husband who might not approve of her reading habit.

Raised in opulence in Manhattan and the beautiful shores of Newport, Rhode Island, she feels threatened by her parents' desire to arrange her marriage. Can love overcome the secrets that threaten to separate them?Ĭatherine has never wanted for anything. A bookish girl with dreams beyond her sheltered life. Can they overcome their families' refusal to accept their attachment, or is their relationship doomed from their very first meeting on the romantic Cliff Walk?Ī mysterious boy with no memory. Throne of Grace, Book One: Josie is content as a maid in a rich cottager's mansion along the Cliff Walk of beautiful Newport, Rhode Island, but the arrival of her employer's handsome, pensive son tempts her into a relationship that while chaste, is forbidden between their social classes in the Gilded Age of 1893.Īfter travels abroad have led Arthur in search of a deeper connection with his Lord, he returns home to find love with his mother's maid, a Christian girl with a heart full of love and charity. Readers who love a HAPPY ENDING will not be disappointed.

Throne of Grace by Cecily Wolfe