The Gallant Heiress Author:Mary E. Butler She was a mysterious beauty who collapsed on his doorstep in the midst of a blinding snowstorm. Yet even before she woke, Jesse Norwood found himself developing a rather proprietary interest in her. Little did he know that his charmingly proper but maddeningly reticent houseguest was the heiress, Lady Annabelle Gallant, or that she was masquerad... more »ing as a governess to thwart the plans of a murderous villain who conspired to steal her fortune and her name. Or that he himself, a hardened bachelor, was about to fall head over heels for a woman whose troublesome self-sufficiency would stand in the way of a proper courtship. But Norwood cared as little for spoiled society misses as he did for deception. And if he were to learn her real identity, Anna's task would be difficult indeed: to teach her stubborn suitor that a titled lady needn't be tiresome, and that love is the greatest truth of all.« less