Unpredictable Bride

When the Earl of Meridan agrees to cancel Sir Edward Belvil's enormous gambling debt in exchange for his daughter's hand in marriage, he expects to wed the beautiful Hester. But Hester loves another, and it is her younger sister, the irrepressible Lucinda, who boldly offers to takes her place. It promises to be the most talked-about marriage in London society. Yet Lucinda is nothing like the demure blonde bride Meridan had anticipated. Dark-haired and outrageously frank, she possesses a startling knowledge of the world and a spirit that refuses to be tamed. As Lucinda transforms herself into London's most fashionable woman, captivates the Prince of Wales and wins the admiration of Meridan's friends and even his enemies, the Earl finds himself increasingly challenged by his unconventional bride. Her spirited ways and disarming frankness are the very things he cannot understand, or control. But with Napoleon's dark shadow falling across Europe and danger threatening Meridan's very life, will he discover what Lucinda truly means to him before it is too late?A sparkling romantic adventure of transformation, courage and passion, in which a most unpredictable bride may prove to be the making of her Earl.