The Marquess Wins a Wife

Determined to force the man who has ruined her sister into matrimony at the point of a pistol, Lizzie Talbot hatches a plan to abduct the blackguard responsible. A plan which might have gone perfectly-had she not abducted the wrong man, and then shot him besides. Now, with three siblings to support and a derelict manor house crumbling around them, in addition to a wounded marquess to nurse back to health, there seems to be no end to her troubles.

Forced to rusticate and recover in the countryside, Lucas Godwin, Marquess of Ashworth, can think only of enacting his vengeance upon the murderous harpy responsible for his unenviable position. At least until Lizzie Talbot and her brood of unruly siblings begin to grow upon him, bringing a man long dead slowly back to life.

When Luke offers her a bargain-become his marchioness in exchange for his protection and support-Lizzie knows she must accept to secure her family's future. But the man he is in London is so far removed from the man she thought she had known. Can there be any hope of warming her husband's cold heart?