A beleaguered young lady and a dashing marquess navigate the rocky waters of a marriage of convenience in this Regency romance. Sarah Wellingford would do her duty—even if that meant putting herself on the Marriage Mart during a London season she could ill afford. Now ironic circumstance had wed her to the compelling Marquess of Englemere, a fabled gamester, who had awakened passions she was honor-bound not to express. A marriage of convenience could be deucedly inconvenient—even for a marquess—when one was perilously close to loving his own wife! But that was impossible, Nicholas Stanhope knew, for hadn’t his tragic past proven that women—especially wives—were not to be trusted?