A Bride for the Hunted Duke
(2026)(The sixth book in the Wives of Convenience series)
A novel by Martha Barwood
‘She had until month's end to keep her mother and sister off the street. He had until the same day to marry, or lose everything to the cousin who wanted him dead.’
Helena Whitmore has held her family together for three years on nothing but wit and will. Now her father the vicar is in the ground, his living is promised to another man, and the house that was never truly theirs will be emptied within weeks. A clever, unmarried woman of no fortune has very few doors left, and Helena has counted every one.
Then the Duke of Westmere walks into her father's study with the last thing she expected. A proposal. Practical, not romantic. His name and his protection for her family, in exchange for a wife by a date his late father's will has fixed and will not move.
Edmund Ridley tells her about the clause and the deadline. He does not tell her that the cousin waiting to inherit in his place has already stopped waiting.
Helena signs anyway. She has run out of doors, and a stranger's bargain is still a roof.
It is meant to be an arrangement, and nothing more. But a woman who has never been cherished does not know what to do with a husband who plants a garden beneath her ailing mother's window without being asked, and a guarded man who married to protect his title does not expect to lie awake protecting her instead.
And as the two of them slowly begin to choose each other, the cousin who wants Edmund's name and lands draws close enough to take them both.
A tender, deeply emotional clean Regency romance of a marriage of convenience, quiet courage, and a love worth the danger. A standalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after full of romance.
Also available with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical
Helena Whitmore has held her family together for three years on nothing but wit and will. Now her father the vicar is in the ground, his living is promised to another man, and the house that was never truly theirs will be emptied within weeks. A clever, unmarried woman of no fortune has very few doors left, and Helena has counted every one.
Then the Duke of Westmere walks into her father's study with the last thing she expected. A proposal. Practical, not romantic. His name and his protection for her family, in exchange for a wife by a date his late father's will has fixed and will not move.
Edmund Ridley tells her about the clause and the deadline. He does not tell her that the cousin waiting to inherit in his place has already stopped waiting.
Helena signs anyway. She has run out of doors, and a stranger's bargain is still a roof.
It is meant to be an arrangement, and nothing more. But a woman who has never been cherished does not know what to do with a husband who plants a garden beneath her ailing mother's window without being asked, and a guarded man who married to protect his title does not expect to lie awake protecting her instead.
And as the two of them slowly begin to choose each other, the cousin who wants Edmund's name and lands draws close enough to take them both.
A tender, deeply emotional clean Regency romance of a marriage of convenience, quiet courage, and a love worth the danger. A standalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after full of romance.
Also available with Kindle Unlimited!
Genre: Historical
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