Gilded Promises: A Gilded Age Gamble of Glamour and Greed (Legacies of Eternal Flame #4)

Newport, 1898. Isabella Ashford watches the last piece of her life disappear. Her family fortune. The Belle Mer mansion. The future she was raised to expect. When the auctioneer’s gavel cracks the room, one man claims it all Elias Hawthorne, a self-made tycoon whose name makes old money stiffen and new money lean in.
He offers a bargain that tastes like smoke. Stand at his side as his society guide. Wear his jewels. Reenter the rooms that just shut their doors. Six months, no more. Isabella agrees, sure she can endure a performance. She doesn’t expect the heat in his gaze, the way it lingers like it already owns the space between them. Diamonds cool against her skin. His voice low, unyielding.
By day, they circle each other as enemies. By night, they slip through ballrooms and moonlit yachts, music fading into whispers. But secrets buried in the wreckage of her father’s empire begin to surface, sharp enough to cut them both.
When everything has a price, is Elias offering rescue or a cage lined with gold?