The Marquess Match

<h2><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(179 105 169 1)>When a spinster ruined by scandal and a marquess with no plans for marriage meet at a pleasure club there is only one rule: No falling in love.</em></h2><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>She's a walking scandal.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Clare Handleton was ruined years ago and has borne the consequences ever since. Branded as Scandalton by the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>ton</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)> she has long since stopped caring about Society's fickle rules. Now at twenty-nine she's mastered the art of slipping past her mother's scrutiny appearing unfazed by it all. But when the dangerously handsome Marquess of Trentham crosses her path he stirs something she thought long buried.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>He's a scandal magnet.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Ashford Drake the Marquess of Trentham is the very definition of devil-may-care. He's made it known even in the presence of the King that marriage is off the table for him. Why would he want to continue his hated father's legacy? So when his sister's intriguing friend catches his eye matrimony is the last thing on his mind.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Have they both met their match?</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Thrown together during the London autumn season Clare and Ash's paths cross at a notorious pleasure club. They strike a deal: no strings attached no emotions involved. But what happens when breaking their own rules becomes inevitable?</span></p><p></p>