A Convenient Bride for the Duke

“Neither party shall require affection of the other. I wrote that clause myself. I am about to break it.”

He must marry within six weeks. She has eleven days before the sheriff comes.

Marianne Shawcross has kept her father’s accounts since she was eleven years old, and the sums have finally run out. Then the cold, unsmiling Duke of Aldermere climbs three flights of stairs above a chandler’s shop with an offer no sensible woman could refuse.

He proposes six months of marriage, her father’s debts paid and a settlement in her own name, on one condition he wrote into the contract himself. Neither of them shall require affection of the other.

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