I married him to save my uncle.
And as soon as we reach England, I have to give him back to his fiancée.
When her uncle is seized in war-torn Spain, Elizabeth Bennet does not wait for rescue. The only man in Tudela with the name, money, and protection she needs is one she once knew and never liked enough to trust.Fitzwilliam Darcy has the standing she needs to get north. She has the Portuguese, the nerve, and the wit he needs to survive the road at all. So she offers him a bargain: a marriage for the journey, husband and wife for appearances, and a promise that once her uncle is safe, the ‘marriage’ will disappear.
But the road north is long, and marriage is a dangerous thing to perform too well. Their certificate carries them through Spain. Their quarrels carry them through the nights. And somewhere between the fear, the hunger, the banter, and the shared shelter, Elizabeth begins to understand that reaching England will be the easy part.
She never meant to want this marriage. She certainly never meant to want the man she is expected to surrender at journey’s end.
HOMELESS — a Pride and Prejudice variation. A marriage of necessity. A husband promised elsewhere. One bed on a dangerous road. A pact that was always meant to end.
A road-romance JAFF Regency adventure for readers who love forced marriage, marriage of convenience, survival marriage, only one bed, and the exquisite torment of a pact with an end date. The Darcy is the one you came for — proud, capable, honourable, helpless in all the ways that matter, and quietly wrecked by wanting a wife he believes he must eventually surrender. The Elizabeth is Austen’s — sharp, practical, unflinching, funny under pressure, and clever enough to keep them alive when his money and strength are not enough. War-ravaged Spain. A desperate bargain. Husband and wife in name only. Forced proximity. Shared shelter. One bed. Hurt-comfort. Illness caretaking. Banter as foreplay. Mutual pining under a legal fiction. A husband promised elsewhere. A marriage that begins as a document and becomes the most dangerous thing either of them has ever touched. Adventure in its body, Austen in its bones — the Pride and Prejudice variation for readers who want danger on the road, forbidden heat, and a love story that keeps asking whether home is a place, a promise, or a person. Homeless is a standalone novel.
Reader note:Homeless is a more mature variation than my usual work. It contains intimate scenes between a married couple, depicted on the page. The intimacy is integral to the story and is rendered with care, but it is more explicit than my other titles. Readers who prefer closed-door romance may wish to be aware.
Genre: Historical
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