title: Gilding the Waters: A Novel of Lost Causes and Found Love
author:  Catherine Richmond 
description: <div><div></div></div><div><div>Oh my goodness--talk about &quot;gilding the waters&quot;!! Catherine Richmond has gilded this book with so much wit and charm, that I dare you not to laugh out loud over one of the most delightful novels I&apos;ve had the pleasure of reading in a long, long time. Seldom have I enjoyed such a glorious pairing of opposites in a story so lush with historical tidbits, you feel as if you are there! Totally unique, refreshingly entertaining, Gilding the Waters is a change-of-pace romance that will definitely quench your thirst for a love story unlike any other. -Julie Lessman, award-winning author of the Heart of San Francisco series.</div></div>
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  > EARL OF WESTON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > ANNA ST. CLAIRE
  
  > WITH LAUREN HARRISON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Anna St. Claire
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Cover Design by Teresa Spreckelmeyer
  
  Edited by Heather King
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
  mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without
  written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in
  a book review.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is dedicated to any person who was once resigned to a life without
  love, until they met that special person who unpinned their world and sent it
  flying in a new, wonderful direction. This book is for you!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > CONTENTS
  
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  > [Chapter 1](index_split_005.html#filepos4267)
  
  > [Chapt