A Sham Engagement

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>She has vowed never to marry-but will the handsome viscount who compromises her change her mind?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Having been forced to help bring up her younger siblings Miss Elenora Wetherby knows one thing: she does not want to get married and have children of her own. Her mama though has other ideas. She insists on presenting her oldest daughter in society to secure a rich husband who will support the nearly bankrupt estate </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> preserve her older brother's inheritance. However Elenora is not like either her younger sisters or the other debutantes. In a time before autism was understood she's very much on the spectrum and has no idea why she doesn't feel things the way others do.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jack Deveril Viscount Broxbourne is nearing his fortieth year and has so far successfully evaded predatory mamas' attempts to ensnare him for one of their daughters. He lives a charmed life with a small but productive estate in Wiltshire his latest mistress in a London town house and a clique of like-minded friends. His life is perfect. But Jack has a secret. Living in his own house in London is the child of the actress he once loved who was already married to a scoundrel who'd abandoned her. She died giving life to Jack's son little Edward and Jack has sworn to bring him up with every advantage his mother never had.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Jack and Elenora find themselves in a compromising position at a ball their parents demand that he make an honest woman of her. Which neither of them want. But the mismatched lovers secretly agree to a sham engagement planning to see out the season then quietly go their own ways-until Edward is kidnapped by his late mother's ne'er-do-well husband.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Then Elenora and Jack are thrown together in a desperate search through the backstreets of London for the child far from the gilded world of the ton.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>The Mismatched Lovers</u></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1: A Sham Engagement</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2: A Hint of Scandal</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3: A Duchess of Mystery</span></p>