A Perfect Gentleman

by Arlene James

ELIZA DOOLITTLE MEETS HENRY HIGGINS The search for an heiress led urbane attorney Kenyon Ames to the Louisiana swamps, where he found naive, carelessly pretty, desperately poor Sabre Callot. She would inherit a fortune on one impossible condition--that she measure up to her coldhearted grandfather's standards of Southern gentility. Kenyon volunteered to tutor Sabre in the conventions of society. From clothing to speech to posture, he would be her guide. Their relationship was strictly professional. But soon, Kenyon found himself longing to offer more private lessons that had little to do with table manners or tea service. And as he transformed bayou-born Sabre into "My Fair Lady," he found it harder and harder to remain a perfect gentleman... .

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