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The Earl's Inconvenient Wife - cover

The Earl's Inconvenient Wife

Julia Justiss

Publisher: Harlequin Historical

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Summary

In this Regency romance, friends become lovers when a debutante from a notorious family enters a marriage of convenience with her brother’s best friend. 
 
Temperance Lattimar is too scandalous for a Season, until finally she’s sponsored by Lady Sayleford. The whole charade feels wrong when she doesn’t want a husband, but Temper feels awful when MP and aristocrat Gifford Newell is appointed to “protect” her at society events. With her past, she knows she’s not an ideal wife . . . but when a marriage of convenience to Giff becomes her only option, both are surprised to discover their very real feelings for each other.
Available since: 03/01/2019.
Print length: 369 pages.

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