A Devoted Heart — Justine Sommers

A Love Denied

Georgina Leaford knows her parents left her well-provided for, but her greedy, social-climbing guardians insist that she is poor and at their mercy. And when Georgina inherits a fortune not rightfully hers through their conniving, she is mortified.

Suddenly yellow fever strikes Philadelphia. Georgina devotes herself to caring for the sick without a thought for her own peril. She falls deeply in love with the handsome Dr. Anthony Aston, who seems oblivious to her beauty and unaware of her burning love for him. For it is Anthony's inheritance that Georgina has "stolen," and he despises her for having cheated him. She must convince him of her innocence or live without the man she loves.