She is pretty though, smart and possibly a little wild. He was not expecting an heiress to come in and marry him.

As such he was undercover in Newgate, trying to unravel a plot to free Napoleon from his island prison.

Back from the war, Ben is helping his brother with any money he can earn to keep it all afloat. Well except Georgie married someone pretending to be an inmate and then her plan goes up in smoke when she realizes he is the second son of an impoverished house.īenedict Wylde’s father gambled away their entire fortune and left the estate penniless and in debt when he died. It will be so easy, marry and become a widow within a week and move on to run your deceased fathers shipping business. What do you do when you have a large inheritance coming your way, a cousin trying to put you into a compromising position so you have to marry him and no male in your family to protect you? You marry a condemned man in Newgate, of course. But how can this seductive rogue convince brazen, beautiful Georgie that he wants to be together…until actual death do they part? Soon Wylde finds himself courting his own wife, hoping to win her heart since he already has her hand. Georgie doesn’t realize who he is when she marries him-and she most certainly never expects to bump into her very-much-alive, and very handsome, husband of convenience at a society gathering weeks later. What could possibly go wrong?īenedict William Henry Wylde, scapegrace second son of the late Earl of Morcott and well-known rake, is in Newgate prison undercover, working for Bow Street. All she has to do is find an eligible bachelor in prison to marry her, and she’ll be free.

widowed? Georgie hatches a madcap scheme to wed a condemned criminal before he’s set to be executed. Even worse than the ton’s lecherous fortune hunters, however, is the cruel cousin determined to force Georgie into marriage. Shipping heiress Georgiana Caversteed is done with men who covet her purse more than her person.

Introducing the Bow Street Bachelors-men who work undercover for London’s first official police force-and the women they serve to protect.and wed? Martin's Press on October 29, 2019Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

This Earl of Mine by Kate Bateman