Summary
Colorado Jim, nouveau-riche from the dust-blistered frontier, barrels into Manhattan’s chandeliered salons flush with mining millions; there he collides with Reggie Featherstone, a penniless English dandy whose blood is bluer than his bank account. A whim of transatlantic curiosity shuttles them eastward to a fog-soft London where ancestral portraits weep dust and creditors circle like ravens. Amid cracked heraldic china and the sour perfume of genteel decay, Jim’s gaze locks on Angela Featherstone—alabaster composure over smouldering panic—who, cornered by her family’s insolvency, barters her hand for Jim’s gold while vowing the marriage will remain a frigid contract, never a consummated union. Flush with his dollars, she embarks on a glittering rampage of dressmakers, casinos, Riviera detours, reducing his fortune to a thin wail of coins. Broke but oddly liberated, Jim ferries her back to the raw cobalt skies of his Colorado ranch, a realm of spurs and pine resin where three trespassing oil speculators must be ousted at gunpoint; a ricocheting bullet finds his chest, and as Angela, sleeves rolled, cleans the wound by lamplight, the last ice inside her fractures. Enter Philip Meredith, London’s velvet-gloved predator, trailing declarations of love and a derringer, yet even he becomes mere echo when Angela, sun-burnished and callus-handed, finally whispers her husband’s name like prayer.
Synopsis
Colorado Jim, who has just become a millionaire, meets in New York young Englishman Reggie Featherstone, with whom he eventually goes to London. There he meets the Featherstone family, which is in financial distress. He falls in love with Angela, and, yielding to family pressure, she accepts Jim but informs him she will be his wife in name only. After she has depleted his money, he takes her back to Colorado, and they are followed by Philip Meredith, who also loves her. In evicting three men from his ranch, Jim is wounded, and while nursing him to health Angela finally realizes her love for him.
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