Pocket Books
June 2007
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Featuring: Ophelia Reid; Raphael Locke
368 pages ISBN: 1416537309 EAN: 9781416537304 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Ophelia Reid is an incomparable beauty with a reputation
for starting rumors and spreading them. Having purposely
wrecked her engagement to Duncan MacTavish, a future
marquis, which her social-climbing father arranged, Ophelia
wants to return to London's marriage mart and make her own
choice of a wealthy husband. But on her journey home,
something unexpected happens....
The heir to a dukedom, Raphael Locke, Viscount Lynnfield
is -- in spite of his disinterest in marriage -- the most
sought-after young lord in England. He instantly disliked
Ophelia when she caused a scandal to avoid marriage to his
friend MacTavish, but having comforted her in a tearful
moment, he begins to wonder if she's not all bad. So when
MacTavish claims that Ophelia will never be anything but a
spiteful beauty, Rafe bets his friend that he can turn her
into a kindhearted lady who will one day make a good match,
just not with him.
With her parents' blessing, Rafe commandeers Ophelia's
coach and whisks her -- chaperoned, of course -- to his
remote estate in the countryside. There, as he tries to
show his furious, sharp-tongued "guest" the error of her
ways, he discovers the surprising reasons for her bad
behavior. Soon his daily lessons with Ophelia take effect
and he finds himself irresistibly attracted to her. When
Rafe champions the new and improved Ophelia's re-entry to
London society, marriage proposals pour in. Only then does
Rafe start to wonder whether he hasn't gone and fallen in
love with Ophelia himself.
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