Golden Barrier (Linford Romance Library)

Rating:
Summary: Traditional Regency
Review: The heroine of Golden Barrier, Miss Katherine Martenhays, is of a naturally retiring disposition, and after three seasons feels that, although she has had a number of offers, it is her father's fortune rather than herself that is the attraction. She decides to return home to her business-man father in the country. The hero, Dermot Winfield, is a 'poor' relation to one of the nearby estates who inherits the run down estate and tries to bring it back to profitability. The romance builds slowly in the country, and Katherine is attracted to Dermot but finds her father's money causes problems once again, this time because Dermot does not wish to be thought a fortune hunter. Excellent characters, I especially liked Katherine's father as he comes to Katherine's assistance.

From the dust cover of the Linford Edition....

Katherine was gentle and diffident. The conviction grew within her that she owed her undoubted social success to the fact that she was an heiress. In the country Katherine found an occupation to her liking, and a gentleman who won first her respect and then her affection, who was reluctant to woo her because of his own modest fortune. The problem was eventually solved by the intervention of the unprincipled fortune-hunter Viscount Sandiford.