
However, in need of an heir, Adam will use the arrangement to his advantage. 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. Īdam de Courtney's first two wives died under mysterious circumstances. Fortunately, Mia is no longer a girl, but a clever woman with a secret-and a plan of her own. 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. New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Hoyt
