An Inconvenient Marriage

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>As a duke is brought undone by a vicar's daughter and a marriage forged in anger and necessity turns to love.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Robert Layne Duke of Troubridge has long sought a marriage based on love but this longed-for felicity has persistently eluded him. Then with the death of his father he discovers that the estate's finances are in such a parlous condition that he must forego his dreams of love and with all haste find himself a wealthy wife.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Miss Sarah Watson vicar's daughter and veteran wallflower has been saddled with a fortune thanks to the untimely death of her godmother. This elevation to the rank of heiress has made her a target for all of London's fortune hunters. Sarah has long nursed a secret infatuation for the duke but she is furious when it's only her sudden acquisition of a fortune that brings her to his notice.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sparks fly and passion erupts between these two seemingly mismatched people but the starched-up duke is persistently wrong-footed and his attempts to woo Sarah seem doomed from the beginning. Then circumstances force them into a marriage of convenience and as Robert falls hopelessly in love with his wife Sarah's heart softens. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>But when Robert stumbles yet again can he make amends well enough to win her heart forever?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes/Themes:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marriage of Convenience</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Secret Infatuation / Unrequited Love</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Heiress Heroine</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Prideful Stuffy Duke</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wallflower Turned Heiress</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✔️ </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Enemies-to-Lovers Vibe</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Note:</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> This series is part of Dragonblade's Flame line so this is a scorching-hot read with open-door steam.</span></p>