How ironic that to save Ravenswood, his ancestral estate, he must agree to marry a plain, mousey commoner with a huge dowry. Theodore Hampton, the Earl of Lynley, is a handsome rake who has broken the hearts of the Ton’s most beautiful charmers with his thoughtless love them and leave them attitude. What’s more, she feels certain that when her devious father negotiated his daughter’s marriage contract with the earl he failed to mention that her mother was a notorious London courtesan. But to what avail? The Earl of Lynley is her long-lost sister's prospective bridegroom-not hers. For it is at this ball that the kiss of the prospective bridegroom miraculously awakens all the sleeping passion hidden deep inside her lonely, love-starved heart. How ironic that desperation over the mountain of debts she inherits when her mother dies forces her to accept the offer of a small fortune to impersonate her missing twin at her betrothal ball.
She is grateful that she is too plain and too clever to attract the attention of the opposite sex.
How ironic that desperation over the mountain of debts she inherits when her mother dies forces her to accept A lifetime of watching her beautiful mother cater to the whims of the wealthy, titled patrons who owned her body and soul has soured Maive Barrington on men forever. A lifetime of watching her beautiful mother cater to the whims of the wealthy, titled patrons who owned her body and soul has soured Maive Barrington on men forever.
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