A Marriage of Convenience
Lovely Sophia Ashley gave up all thoughts of a love match when she wed a much older man. Widowed now, she has inherited his fortune, but lacks the proper station to find titled husbands for her marriageable sisters. In fact, the London season will be a disaster if Sophia herself doesn't marry the Earl of Leyburn. When this notorious rake first rescued her from a coach accident, she thought him an intriguing stranger; now his desperate financial state has led him to Sophia's door to propose a union of mutual convenience. But as soon as she says "I do," Sophia suddenly realizes she doesn't ... and won't. For the unthinkable has happened: She has fallen in love with her handsome husband who, unbeknownst to Sophia, has also lost his heart to her....