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London, 1816
Aiden Bradbury, London’s most adamant bachelor, has always played by his own rules. Ballrooms are nothing but a bore, society is nothing but a marital trap where only death can free you, and his life is exactly how he wants it to be–a splendid balance between high-stakes wagers and the comfort of his gentlemen’s club. But when his closest friends fall one by one to love, Aiden finds himself facing the gaming tables alone.
One reckless evening—and one devastatingly wrong miscalculation—changes everything. By morning, his marriage is announced, and the secrets he’s spent years concealing from even his closest friends are laid upon the table.
Effie MacDowan has spent a lifetime wishing to be invisible. Unwanted by her own parents for being painfully shy, she is merely a pawn in her family’s desperate ambitions that find her pushed into a marriage with a man she doesn’t know.
Bound together by the choices of others and burdened by the hidden truths they both possess, Aiden and Effie must navigate a partnership built upon lies and secrets. Can two strangers with everything set against them find love, or will the odds keep them apart?
Genre: Historical Romance
Aiden Bradbury, London’s most adamant bachelor, has always played by his own rules. Ballrooms are nothing but a bore, society is nothing but a marital trap where only death can free you, and his life is exactly how he wants it to be–a splendid balance between high-stakes wagers and the comfort of his gentlemen’s club. But when his closest friends fall one by one to love, Aiden finds himself facing the gaming tables alone.
One reckless evening—and one devastatingly wrong miscalculation—changes everything. By morning, his marriage is announced, and the secrets he’s spent years concealing from even his closest friends are laid upon the table.
Effie MacDowan has spent a lifetime wishing to be invisible. Unwanted by her own parents for being painfully shy, she is merely a pawn in her family’s desperate ambitions that find her pushed into a marriage with a man she doesn’t know.
Bound together by the choices of others and burdened by the hidden truths they both possess, Aiden and Effie must navigate a partnership built upon lies and secrets. Can two strangers with everything set against them find love, or will the odds keep them apart?
Genre: Historical Romance