Marry In Secret

Lady Rose Rutherford-rebel, heiress, and exasperated target of the town’s hungry bachelors-has a plan to gain the freedom she so desperately desires- she will enter into a marriage of convenience 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 and secretly 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….