Hearts of Gold, by Grace Hitchcock, contains three novellas. The book begins with The Bridal Shop, next you read Miss Beaumont’s Companion and the book concludes with The Becoming of Miss Blanche!
You meet Alice Turner on the opening pages of The Bridal Shop. Alice hopes positive feedback will come from her work with her latest client, a very wealthy bride. When Giles Clayton, the bride’s brother, needs a quick repair to his pants, he steps into Alice’s bridal shop. Giles is amazed when he first lays eyes on Alice. They meet up again when Alice performs a fitting at the Clayton home. When feelings begin to grow between Alice, a seamstress, and Giles, a wealthy banker, you wonder if their relationship with be approved of by society!
In Miss Beaumont’s Companion, Aria St. Angelo is asked to pretend to be her boss’s daughter, Mildred Beaumont, in order to meet the senator’s son, Byron Roderick. As she is looking to escape in the midst of the masquerade, she accidentally runs into Roderick in a dark hallway. Before you know it, “Mildred” has a date scheduled with him. After Roderick’s date, he suspects something in not quite right. As Roderick continues to date Mildred his suspicions are realized. His first date was with Aria. You will not believe how complicated this situation actually becomes by the end of this tale!
The Becoming of Miss Blanche opens in the year 1885 with Tacy Blanche taking a job as a Harvey girl. She had lost everything in a fire and needed to start anew. As Tacy tries to find a place to fit in at the resort, she meets Jasper Caffery, a Pinkerton agent, as he identifies her as Eustacia Gibbs. Tacy had changed her name to escape from Jasper’s brother Camden. This tale gets complicated when Jasper converts his vacation into a job handling the resort’s mule rides. Tacy’s world becomes very complicated when Camden suddenly shows up and before she knows it, Jasper drags her into chasing after a known criminal. Hope tight for a surprise ending!