It's not easy being rich, although people think it is what they want most in life,' Oletha's mother once told her. 'But trust your heart. Remember too the most valuable thing in the whole world is not money but love.' Heiress to her late and much beloved mother's fortune, innocent and beautiful Oletha has always kept those words close to her heart. So when her father goes against them, announcing that he intends to marry her off to a famously dashing Duke who needs her money she is horrified. His reason, ' because you are so rich,' her father said, 'you will find the average decent English gentleman will never ask you to be his wife.' Her fortune is no blessing. It is a curse. Hating the thought with every fibre of her being, she is still the dutiful daughter – reluctant to disobey. But soon she is to discover which of her parents is right, which is wrong and whether she will ever find the love she so wants.
