Eight years ago, a tall, handsome stranger entered Lizzie Allbright's bedchamber and consummated a marriage of the utmost necessity. The Marquis of Steyne had agreed to wed and bed Lord Bute's admittedly lovely daughter to pay off his mother's gambling debts. But once the deed was done, Steyne's lawfully wedded wife vanished into the night.
Years later, Steyne has nearly forgotten about his runaway bride. But when he suddenly finds himself in need of an heir, he has no choice but to track her down. Living happily in a small village under an assumed name, Lizzie is surprised to see her husband—and to feel such a strong attraction to him. But she is downright shocked when he asks her to bear him a son. How can they possibly repeat the heated encounter of their ill-fated wedding night . . . without falling hopelessly in love?
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“With a family fortune at stake, Lizzie and Xavier’s relationship plays out with a great deal of parry and thrust, as Brooke takes obvious glee in muddling her characters’ lives.”
— Publishers Weekly
Lizzie and Xavier's relationship plays out with a great deal of parry and thrust, as Brooke takes obvious glee in muddling her characters' lives.
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Christina Brooke is the award-winning author of the Ministry of Marriage series and the Westruthers series. A Golden Heart winner and two-time RITA finalist, her books have also been nominated for Romantic Times magazine’s Reviewers’ Choice Award, as well as for the Bookseller’s Best and the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award. A former lawyer, she lives in Australia with her husband, two noisy sons, and one enormous dog.
Elizabeth Wiley, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a seasoned actor, dialect coach, and theater professor. In addition to her growing portfolio of audiobooks, her voice can be heard in The Idea of America, Colonial Williamsburg’s virtual learning curriculum; in Paul Meier’s e-textbook Speaking Shakespeare; and modeling US-English on one of the world’s top language-learning products.