The High Heart
What happens when a woman with nothing meets a man who has everything, except the freedom to love her? Alexandra Adare left Canada for New York to work as a nursery governess, but she never expected to fall into the orbit of the powerful Brokenshire family. Hugh Brokenshire sees past her station. His father does not. J. Howard Brokenshire rules his world with money and influence, and he has chosen a suitable bride for his son. Alexandra must choose: does she accept the love that would cost Hugh everything, or does she sacrifice her own heart to protect him from the consequences of choosing her? Basil King writes with sharp precision about the invisible borders that divide people, and the way love either shatters them or reinforces them. This is a novel about what it costs to be poor in a room full of wealth, and whether the heart can ever truly be free when it loves someone it was never supposed to have. For readers who loved Edith Wharton or Henry James.
