The Secondhand Earl

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>What happens when a lady loses her heart to a tortured earl with a damning secret?</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lady Grace Howard and her ailing son have no choice but to move in with her sister Maude and her husband. Although welcome she is too prideful to remain with them overly long. So when she crosses paths with a cynical war-wounded earl who needs her dowry but loathes the idea of falling in love again as much as she Grace agrees to a marriage of convenience. Little does she know there is more to the bargain. Something she would not have liked one bit.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While Charles Lord of Newcastle needs Grace's dowry the business her brother-by-marriage brings to his port is the driving force behind marrying her. It's something she must not know about lest her pride land her in the arms of the wrong suitor. Despite preferring honesty he agrees without understanding how much hiding the truth might cost him. But then he could not anticipate how fond of each other they would become. How much they would help heal one another's hearts. Moreover he could have never foreseen passion-let alone love-igniting between them. Now his secret will likely become a damning truth.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Will Charles and Grace be able to weather the storm when it comes? Or is their marriage doomed to be as superficial as initially intended?</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Second Time Brides</u></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 1 - Never Second Guess a Lord</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 2 - The Secondhand Earl</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book 3 - Second Thoughts About the Heir</span></p>