A Charm of Magpies

Captain James Garbrae and Lady Catherine Montgomery are to be married; not because they want to be not because they love each other but because their families need them to be.Captain Garbrae - hard-working handsome passionate and determined - sacrifices love for the inheritance of a cotton mill and for the chance to shape a better future for those he employs.Lady Catherine - privileged beautiful sharp-witted and sharper tongued - sacrifices her chance of a future with a man of her choosing in order to save her family from poverty and shame.Can a marriage borne from sacrifice and tainted with bitterness survive? Can two people who are locked in a battle of wills compromise to find peace? Will early challenges break their fragile union or forge a stronger one? Will Captain Garbrae and Lady Catherine ever offer one another the hope of happiness they both thought lost?This is book 1 in a trilogy of linked romance novels.