Most Suitable Duchess

[H]ooks us with absorbing storytelling. BOOKLIST Marcus Heywood, the new Duke of Torringford, must take a wife in three weeks or lose the country estate hes unexpectedly inherited. His brother, Reginald, suggests an advertisement in the papers, something Marcus refuses to consideruntil a wine-fueled [...]
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[H]ooks us with absorbing storytelling. BOOKLIST Marcus Heywood, the new Duke of Torringford, must take a wife in three weeks or lose the country estate hes unexpectedly inherited. His brother, Reginald, suggests an advertisement in the papers, something Marcus refuses to consideruntil a wine-fueled evening when he pens one in jest. Now, in a horrible mix-up, the ad has been printed and Marcus is mortified. At all of twenty-one years, Penelopes spinsterhood seems confirmed; shell never find a man she can marry. But her half-brother thinks otherwise, and without her knowledge, he answers the Duke of Torringfords advertisement for a wife and signs her name to it. When an announcement of her upcoming wedding to the Duke appears in the papers, Penelope knows she must take her place as his wife, or her honor will be ruined. But it will be a marriage in name only, that shes sure of; until the handsome good looks and warm smile of her new husband make her heart pound in a most unsettling way...