The Contrary Debutante

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Emerald de Petras will not get married and her rambunctious family cannot make her.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The definition of a wallflower Emerald hates Society: all those people looking at her judging her pointing and gossiping about her family. She won't have it and she'll never marry and provoke even more tittle tattle.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She is hardly a debutante anymore however and her contrary ways forces her mother to make a desperate agreement. Emerald will attend ten more balls this Season...and then no more. She'll be freed from her obligation to her family to marry and that will be an end to it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Delighted to find a way out it was rather inconvenient that Robert Ainsworth Marquis of Swindmore decided she was a challenge.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>After all what recently divorced man didn't want a challenge?</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Following a humiliating divorce he's just about managed to keep quiet. Robert sees something in Emerald that no one else does. Wallflower yes-but there's something deep and passionate in those shy green eyes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Emerald tries to fight the growing attraction she knows can go nowhere and Robert begins to realize his teasing flirtation is becoming so much more there'll be scandal despite both their best efforts before long.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Can a contrary debutante with no wish to marry and a Marquis with no faith left in love find something truly special?</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>The de Petras Saga</u></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1 - The Misplaced Husband</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2 - The Impoverished Dowry</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3 - The Contrary Debutante</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 4 - The Determined Mistress</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 5 - The Convenient Engagement</span></p>