I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

Biography
Julie Garwood was raised in Kansas City Missouri the sixth of seven children in a large Irish family. This teacher had such an impact on Garwood's life that Julie Garwood named her daughter Elizabeth. After having a tonsillectomy at age six because Julie Garwood missed so much school Julie Garwood did not learn to read as the other children her age did.

Garwood's novel For the Roses was adapted for the television feature Rose Hill. Julie Garwood (born in Kansas City Missouri) is an American writer of over twenty-seven romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres.