Night at the Opera

NIGHT AT THE OPERA - Book 1 (1908)When Grace Barton, an American heiress, stumbles across a wounded man at the opera in London, she shares a kiss with the injured stranger that changes her life. More determined than ever to marry for love instead of a title-and find the man she kissed-she's certain the stranger can't be the insufferable Avery Winfield who constantly badgers her with his ill opinions of high-society life and her efforts to hold to her faith amidst London's ballrooms. Avery Winfield is stunned when he learns Grace is the woman he shared the extraordinary kiss with when she found him wounded in the opera box. While most of London society believes him to be a suitable match for their daughters, he is actually working for the Secret Service Bureau as a secret agent, fettering out German spies from among the ton. But his most important mission might just be convincing the one woman strong enough to change his mind about marriage and God that he isn't the blackguard she believes-he's the stranger who won her heart that night at the opera.