Vellei Paterculi Ex Historiae Romanae Ad Vinicium Cos. (1851)

A Touch of Velvet is an historical romance set in America during the early nineteenth century. Escaping a forced marriage to an evil man, Tristen Corbett inadvertently becomes a guest in the home of the very man she wants to marry-Major Ian Hunter, the handsome war hero, who saved her life when she was a girl. Ian has reservations about this lovely, spirited girl with troubling secrets, but her beauty and vow of eternal love are difficult to ignore. And although her stubbornness half-impairs him, he sees her as always refreshing. Every word she speaks is the dearest, and the last of her kisses are the most enchanting. They enjoy a love so grand that no one can perforate it-until she walks away with his bitterest enemy. Betrayal tears them apart, but he doesn’t know she had to leave-or watch him die. When circumstances bring her back to him, she must prove that her love was constant to the end.