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A Swift Marriage
Miss Abbie Bain has no dowry, no hopes, and no husband. She is one-and-twenty and her prospects are bleak. Her father ruined her family, financially and socially, and died in a scandal of consumption. She is down on her luck, to say the least. Then, to Abbie and Mrs. Mamie Bain’s surprise, they receive an invitation from His Grace, Brigadier Zack Dogan, Duke of Sommer. He has invited them to a ball at his castle.

Mamie thinks it is a trick, but they are admitted to the ball Only to be humiliated by Lady Carol Ollivander, an old friend-turned-enemy. Abbie fears that she had been shunned from society, when His Grace himself comes to her rescue. To her shock, he reveals that he invited her to the party to ask for her hand in marriage. The Bains cannot think to refuse, but soon after the marriage, His Grace leaves her for five months.

Upon his return, Abbie must try and penetrate his cold, icy exterior and reveal the shy, uncertain man within.


A Danger Reunion

"I cannot marry you, for my heart belongs to another."

Seven years ago, Lady Ruth Eyre and His Grace, Luke Orr, Duke of Stunton, fell in love. She gave him her heart, and he promised her marriage. But then war broke out in France, and His Grace went to serve his country. Ruth vowed that she would wait for him.

But a lady of two-and-seven cannot stay unmarried forever, and pressure from her mother and father leads her into a tenuous courtship with Lord Charles Stone, the son of a silkman and her social inferior, as well as a brutish and improper man. Charles has his sights set on Ruth, and her parents are keen to marry off their last unmarried girl.

But then the Duke returns and the lovers are reunited. Ruth must navigate a social maelstrom and find a way to be with His Grace again, or face losing the only man she ever loved.

WARNING: Contains scintillating adult scenes and is intended for 18+ Readers Only!

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