![]() ![]() When a scandal erupts over Miss Hastings being interviewed by the duke, Marcus's honor demands he offer for her. ![]() Unbeknownst to her, Penelope Hastings is recommended as a possible bride for the new duke. In a drunken stupor, Marcus's younger brother sends an ad to the local newspaper advertising for a wife. According to the terms of the former duke's will, Marcus has to marry by his 30th birthday, or he will not inherit the unentailed properties and fortune amassed by former duke. Marcus Heywood is the new Duke of Torrington. ![]() But it will be a marriage in name only, that she's sure of until the handsome good looks and warm smile of her new husband make her heart pound in a most unsettling way. When an announcement of her upcoming wedding to the Duke appears in the papers, Penelope knows she must take her place as his wife, or her honor will be ruined. But her half-brother thinks otherwise, and without her knowledge, he answers the Duke of Torringford's advertisement for a wife and signs her name to it. Now, in a horrible mix-up, the ad has been printed and Marcus is mortified.Īt all of twenty-one years, Penelope's spinsterhood seems confirmed she'll never find a man she can marry. His brother, Reginald, suggests an advertisement in the papers, something Marcus refuses to consider-until a wine-fueled evening when he pens one in jest. Marcus Heywood, the new Duke of Torringford, must take a wife in three weeks or lose the country estate he's unexpectedly inherited. "ooks us with absorbing storytelling." -BOOKLIST ![]()
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