Midnight Dancer
Bradshaw, Emily
"YOU NEVER TOLD ME MARRIAGE WAS PART OF THE BARGAIN."

In the half-light of the Lady Luck Saloon Magdalena Montoya danced a wanton flamenco for the brooding stranger who watched from below. Afterward, she was summoned to his side. The arrogant Englishman, Lord Christopher Talbot, told her she was the descendant of a noble Spanish family: heiress to a huge land grant that he would help her claim -- if she became a lady, the believable survivor of her noble clan. He said she woud repay him -- but never mentioned marriage as the price....

Nor did he tell her that his own brother had claimed the abandoned Montoya land -- and lost it in a poker game that cost him his life. Christopher Talbot was hell-bent on retribution for his brother's death. Magdalena Montoya was his sweet revenge. As her husband, he could control her land and rebuild his family's fortune. He needed Maggie. But he hadn't reckoned on the frontier hellion who would take on royal London with independence and style that commanded respect and kindled his ungovernable desire....