Lord Laxton's Will — Julia Joyce

LORD LAXTON'S HEIRS REELED FROM THE SHOCK...

...for their very proper father's will carries one very improper provision: that they succeed in marrying off one Genevieve Sainte-Vire, a poor French miss of inconvenient birth. Inconvenient, that is, in that she is noble Lord Laxton's ignobly illegitimate daughter.

The potential for scandal looms, to be sure, but the Laxtons bravely introduce Genevieve into society as a distant relation from the Continent. In no time, the demoiselle's stunning beauty and exquisite French charm has many a London beau pining. And the dark family secret is hardly suspected.

But suspicions aplenty fill the handsome head of the Marquis de Laleham, London's most eligible bachelor. Vowing to remain unmoved by her beauty, he sets out to uncover Genevieve's secret past and expose her as society's most shameless fraud.

And Genevieve, as the marquis is shocked to learn, has more secrets than he ever imagined. Some, dark and dangerous. Others, sweet-- and even more dangerous!