To hide her history of having spent the last fifteen years living in a harem after having been abducted by pirates, Mia agrees to promote her father's mostly unbelievable tale of having just returned from life in a European convent. Nevertheless, rumors and innuendo are powerful forces. Mia and Adam are both considered outcasts, though London society only suspects they have dirty little secrets in their past. It has a promising start, and the first third of it was engaging and charming. However, in need of an heir, Adam will use the arrangement to his advantage.īut when the two outcasts finally meet, assumptions will be replaced by surprises, deceit by desire-and a meeting of minds between two schemers may lead to a meeting of hearts-if the secrets of their pasts don’t tear them apart. Clearly Mia must resemble an aging matron, or worse. Nobody except Mia’s father, the desperate Duke of Carlisle. Now there isn’t a peer in England willing to let his daughter marry the dangerously handsome man the ton calls The Murderous Marquess. Fortunately, Mia is no longer a girl, but a clever woman with a secret-and a plan of her own.Īdam de Courtney’s first two wives died under mysterious circumstances. No doubt her potential groom is a demented octogenarian. Worst of all is her ashamed father’s ultimatum: marry a man of his choosing or live out her life in seclusion. Now the sultan is dead and Mia is back in London facing relentless newspapermen, an insatiably curious public, and her first Season. Lady Euphemia Marlington hasn’t been free in seventeen years-since she was captured by Corsairs and sold into a harem. What sort of lady doesn’t make her debut until the age of thirty-two? A timeless beauty with a mysterious past-and a future she intends to take into her own hands.
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