The Six-Month Marriage

"The added dimension of Philip's involvement with espionage gives a frisson of adventure to this most engaging Regency."

Rachel A Hyde, MyShelf.com

Published by Robert Hale ISBN 0 7090 6999 5

In order to claim his inheritance Philip, Lord Pemberton, has to arrange a six-month marriage, but what respectable young lady will go along with such a scheme?

Madeline Delaware needs to escape from her dissolute uncle, and Philip's offer is her only hope. But the six-month marriage turns out to be far from the peaceful interlude she has envisaged. Who is the beautiful Miss Letitia Bligh, and is she really as well disposed towards Madeline as she seems? What lies behind the mysterious break-in at Philip's London home? Why is his coach attacked as he and Madeline travel to his Yorkshire estate?

And why, when the marriage is simply a convenient arrangement, does Madeline find it so difficult to think of its end?

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