A rugged and ruined naval officer comes to claim his bride in a tale of love and revenge from the national bestselling author of Marry in Scandal.
A rugged and ruined naval officer comes to claim his bride in an unforgettabletale of love, revenge and redemption from the national bestselling author ofMarry in Scandal.Lady Rose Rutherford-rebel, heiress, and exasperated target of the town's hungry bachelors-has a plan togainthe freedom she so desperately desires- she will enter into amarriage ofconvenience with the biggest prize on the London marriage mart.
There's just one problem- the fierce-looking man who crashes her wedding to the Duke of Everingham - Thomas Beresford, the young naval officer she fell in love with andsecretly married when she was still a schoolgirl. Thought to have died four years ago he's returned,a cold, hard stranger with one driving purpose-revenge.
Embittered by betrayal and hungry for vengeance, Thomas will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place, even if that means using Rose-and her fortune-to do it. But Rose never did follow the rules, and as she takes matters into her own unpredictable hands, Thomas finds himself in an unexpected and infuriating predicament- he's falling in love with his wife....
