Scandalous Intentions

<p>In glittering Victorian London appearances matter reputations are everything and a lady's heart is far too precious to be gambled away.</p><p>Lady Sarah Roseington has spent years resisting every attempt to steer her toward a convenient match. She dreams not of rank or riches but of a marriage built on affection trust and freedom. The last man she should ever consider is Lord Julian Carrington the Marquess of Luvington-a notorious rake whose name has long been linked to scandal.</p><p>Julian needs a respectable bride and quickly. Sarah is everything he should want in a wife: lovely clever accomplished and beyond reproach. Yet the more time he spends in her company the less this becomes a matter of duty and the more it becomes a matter of the heart. For Sarah is unlike any woman he has ever known-spirited discerning and far too perceptive to be won by charm alone.</p><p>As their uneasy courtship deepens into something far more intimate Sarah begins to glimpse the man beneath Julian's reputation. But just as hope begins to bloom a shadow from his past returns threatening to undo their fragile happiness before it can truly begin.</p><p>From London ballrooms to the wild romance of Scotland this emotional Victorian love story is filled with yearning scandal tenderness and a hero who must fight not merely to win a bride-but to prove himself worthy of her heart.</p>