To continue the family line, he is counting on his cousin and heir presumptive Richard to marry well and produce a son. Imperious, handsome and gallant in battle, the Duke of Kingswood has stolen the hearts of many society Belles – but he is ‘a block of ice which nobody can melt’, determined never to marry. The Duke & The Preachers Daughter Barbara Cartland Reluctantly Rolfe agrees to her plan as he really has no other option.Īnd he also persuades Zarina to travel with him on a voyage to India – and she accepts his offer to escape a loveless marriage and perhaps to find a true love of her own at the end of the long voyage. She makes an offer to use her inheritance to pay all The Priory’s debts and avoid the auction if only Rolfe will make her his fiancée, thereby making marriage to the Duke impossible. He is just about to start an auction for everything he owns when Zarina arrives to dramatically save the day with her huge fortune and she comes up with a cunning plan. She then hears the sad news that her childhood friend, Rolfe, now the Earl of Linwood, is being forced to sell the neighbouring Priory with all its contents and its huge estate to pay off the accumulated debts of his now dead elder brother, So when her uncle and Guardian insists that she should marry the middle-aged Duke of Malnesbury, she is appalled at the idea and refuses point blank. Having inherited a considerable fortune from her American Godmother, the beautiful young debutante,Zarina Bryden, really is the belle of the ball throughout London Society, wooed by an endless parade of insincere suitors in love with her money and not with her.īoth her mother and father have died and so she is an orphan, but a very rich one indeed. Now she’s set her mind and heart on saving him. Soon he’s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens?Įasier said than done, for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn’t know a loving home from a workhouse. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.ĭone, Gabriel says. When her imposing-and attractive-new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn’t take into her home and her heart. Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society-and now he wants to get even. To an undaunted wallflower, he's just the beast next door. Summary New York Times and USA Today Bestseller But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Wallflower Wager - Girl Meets Duke Tessa Dare We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog.
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