Intelligent, practical Mary Challoner knew wicked Dominic
Alastair, Marquis of Vidal, wouldn't marry her sister,
despite her mother's matchmaking schemes. So Mary coolly
prepared to protect her sister by deceiving Vidal. But she
certainly hadn't expected the infuriated nobleman to
kidnap her! Reluctantly awakening to his responsibility—
and realizing just how serious Mary was about her virtue—
Vidal proposed marriage.
But after all the carefully
laid wedding plots he'd dodged, Vidal had never expected
to be refused by a chit! Baffled, bewitched and
frustratingly tempted, Vidal swore that Mary would be his
wife. Even if it was the last thing either of them ever
did…