A Lifetime to Grow Old Together

During Clara Zimmerman's third year of having Sebastian Cooke as her kept man, her family goes bankrupt. To save them from ruin, her father, Frank Zimmerman, forces her into a marriage alliance.That very night, she packs her bags, determined to run away with Sebastian.Yet at the bar where he works, she sees him clinking glasses and mingling with effortless charm, his every move exuding elegance—nothing like the penniless young man she'd been supporting for the past three years.