A lifelong love… Lady Elaine Lockwood is fed up with the marriage mart. After being rejected—twice—Lainey decides to shelve her girlish dreams of true love and pursue her charitable passions instead.

She longs to open a help center for underprivileged women, but unfortunately, her plan requires raiding a trust fund that she can only access once married. Lainey needs to find a husband quickly, and one who won’t interfere with her work…but in order to meet the right sort of man, she must turn to the one who broke her heart.

A late night encounter… Refusing his best friend’s little sister had been the hardest thing he’d ever done, but Gavin Mayfield was certain he’d made the right choice. Lainey didn’t know his family secret, or that marrying him could put her safety at risk.

But when he attends a house party under the guise of helping her find a husband, it becomes harder and harder to resist her, and he’s faced with an impossible decision: let her sacrifice her dreams and marry someone she doesn’t love, or conquer his own demons and be all she’s ever wanted. A longed-for kiss could change everything.

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