Ever His Bride

USA Today bestselling author Linda Needham crafts a passionate tale of Beauty and the Beast in this mismatched marriage-of-convenience between a dark and brooding financier and a free-spirited travel-writer.Felicity Mayfield has no choice: marry cold-hearted financier Hunter Claybourne or he will throw her into Victorian Londons most notorious debtors prison for the crimes committed against him by her uncle. But before she agrees she proposes a bargain: shell become his wife in name only for one brief year-if he allows her the freedom to continue living an independent life as a roving travel writer.Hunter never suspected a wife could be such a nuisance. The marriage-of-convenience was supposed to be a simple business arrangement. Instead she invades his cavernous home rearranges the furniture wins over his servants and blinds him with her sunlight. Her constant presence is unsettling her lavender scent enchanting her skin a soft temptation. Suddenly it seems only right that she should wear his ring...and share his bed. After all she is his wife. Yet even as Felicity opens a chink in Hunters heart her exposé of the scandalous workhouses threatens to uncover his darkest secret forcing him to choose between his hard-won empire and the miracle of love.