The Secret Word

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>He's offered an opportunity he can't refuse: to love.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Christopher Satterthwaite rescues Clementine Wright from would-be kidnappers he is offered an opportunity he can't refuse. Clem's father a wealthy coal magnate has been looking for a husband for his only child. Someone with aristocratic bloodlines and no family-someone who can give him the blue-blooded heir he craves without the interference of noble relatives.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Chris figures he and Clem can work together to keep Wright from controlling their every move. As their partnership develops they fall in love. Wright doesn't stand a chance against them. Or does he?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And what about the other men who are showing an interest in the child who is soon on the way? Chris's reprobate grandfather is hanging around like a bad smell and clearly has a scheme in mind. Chris's more respectable relatives have not disowned him after all and are eager to shower the as-yet unborn child with every advantage-because they regret not helping Chris as a child? Or for purposes of their own?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And then there is Ramping Billy O'Hara the most sinister of them all and Chris's patron.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Some are villains. Some are on the side of the couple and their child. Only time will tell which is which.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes you'll love:</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Arranged marriage</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Evil parent</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Villain to hero</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Reverse Rumpelstiltskin</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Twisted fairy tale</span></p>