Dimensions
106 x 171 x 27mm
Annabel Wheaton, one of society's wealthiest heiresses, should need for nothing. But the elite are not at all impressed with New Money and shun her family at every turn. Annabel knows if she is to protect her loved ones from cruel tongues, she must marry well. So when she meets the Earl of Rumsford, who promises to love her and be the prince her family needs, Annabel wants more than anything to believe him.
Christian Du Quesne, Duke of Scarborough has no use for the ton who reveres his title, for the archaic aristocracy who refused to accept the love of his life -- his wife, a former shop girl, who committed suicide after giving birth to their son. When he meets Annabel, an American with a fiery beauty and a proposal from an impoverished Earl, he sees the life of pain that awaits her. Even if she were to marry the good-for-nothing Rumsford, society will never accept her.
After a long night of drinking on the eve of his own anniversary, Christian's state and still-raw grief lead him to halt Annabel's dream wedding, humiliating her and her bridegroom as they stand on the altar. Duke or no, Annabel tells the disconcertingly handsome nobleman he's ruined her life, and now she won't let him rest until he helps her land her Earl. Ah, if only it were that simple ...
