Speak to Me of Love (e-book) (used book) | Dorothy Eden | bookbook.eu

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From the first time she set eyes on Overton House and on its devastatingly handsome young master, William Overton, Beatrice Bonnington was enchanted. In fact, it was sometimes difficult for her to acknowledge which one she had fallen in love with first. But though the scion of a distinguished English family might be bought, neither he nor his peers could be forced to accept the daughter of a tradesman, despite the burgeoning success of Bonnington's Emporium in the Bayswater Road, the rival - eventually, the equal - of Selfridge's and Liberty's. Wed her he might, but love her William refused to do. As he pursued his own pleasures more openly - frequent trips abroad, liaisons with the reigning beauties of the day - Beatrice took refuge at Bonnington's. There she found the sense of purpose that eluded her among the haughty aristocrats who attended her glittering balls at Overton House but mocked her maliciously behind their fans. There "Queen Bea" wielded a real and heady power to build at Bonnington's an empire to rival that of the other monarch, Victoria's far-flung domain. For Bea, business became an opiate to dull the pain of William's failure as a husband and flight from her bed, but would it be enough?