Dimensions
109 x 170 x 26mm
The Wedding Gamble
Sarah Wellingford would do her duty.
Even if that meant putting herself on the Marriage Mart during a London season she could ill afford ? and did not desire. Now ironic circumstance have wed her to the compelling Marquess of Englemere, a fabled gamester, who has awakened passions she was honour-bound not to express.
A marriage of convenience could be deucedly inconvenient ? even for a marquess ? when one was perilously close to loving his own wife! But Nicholas Stanhope knew that was impossible, for hadn't his tragic past proven that women ? especially wives ? were not to be trusted?
A Scandalous Proposal
Threatened by extortionists, disowned widow Emily Spenser has little recourse ? until the Earl of Cheverley, captivated by this unusual shopkeeper, comes to her aide.
Emily cannot repay the Earl's expenditures ? not in coin. But having learned through bitter experience not to trust the largesse of powerful men and desperate to stay hidden from the father-in-law who would take away her son, she seeks to cancel her obligation to the highly visible earl immediately. Little does she realise a “fleeting” affair will lead to something much more...