with his own condition: The marriage must end after one year. But when her parents settle on an intolerable suitor, Christina turns to her reclusive neighbor, a darkly handsome and utterly compelling inventor, for help.Oliver Hawkes reluctantly agrees to a platonic marriage. Joanna Shupe returns to New York City’s Gilded Age, where fortunes and reputations are gained and lost with ease-and love can blossom from the most unlikely charadeWith the fate of her disgraced family resting on her shoulders, Lady Christina Barclay has arrived in New York City from London to quickly secure a wealthy husband. Soon all Quint knows for certain is that he will die trying to protect her… Read online Yet that fight is as hopeless as stopping her outlandish plan. For Damien is fighting a battle of his own, one he wishes to keep hidden-along with his feelings for Lady Sophia. A woman with a perilously absurd request, no less. The man she won’t let destroy her again…The last thing Damien Beecham, Viscount Quint, needs is an intrusion on his privacy, especially from the beautiful, exasperating woman he’s never stopped wanting.

But only one person can help her: Lord Quint, the man who broke her heart years ago. All she needs is instruction on how to shoot it. Now her fate is in her own hands, along with a loaded gun. She’s not concerned about the criminals who will cross her path, for Sophie has mastered the art of deception-including the art of wearing trousers. Especially when she’s roaming London’s seedy underground…dressed as a man.A rabble rouser for justice, Sophie’s latest mission is to fight for the rights of the poor, the wretched-and the employees at Madame Hartley’s brothel.

Lady Sophia Barnes doesn’t take no for an answer.

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