From the award-winning author of The Summer Bride comes the first in
a charming new historical romance series where marriages of convenience
turn into true love matches.
Major Calbourne Rutherford returns to England on the trail of an
assassin, only to find he's become Lord Ashendon, with the
responsibility for vast estates and dependent relatives. Cal can command
the toughest of men, but his wild half-sisters are quite another matter.
They might just be his undoing.
When he discovers that Miss Emmaline Westwood, the girls' former
teacher, guides them with ease, Cal offers her a marriage of
convenience. But strong-minded and independent Emm is neither as
compliant nor as proper as he expected, and Cal finds himself most
inconveniently seduced by his convenient wife.
Emm knows they didn't marry for love, yet beneath her husband's austere
facade, she catches glimpses of a man who takes her breath away. As
pride, duty and passion clash, will these two stubborn hearts find more
than they ever dreamed of?