A Thoroughly Compromised Bride — Catherine Reynolds

THE truth would destroy her only chance for happiness

At five and twenty, Miss Elizabeth Ashton had turned down any number of unexceptionable offers to marry. She simply refused to wed for reasons known only to herself.

Her quiet life in Bath was all she could have wished for until the arrival of Mr. Charles Carlyle. Try as she would, she found it increasingly difficult to remain insensible to this charming, irreverent and irresistible rake.

Manipulated by well-meaning but interfering relatives, Elizabeth found herself in the position she had most assiduously avoided.. Charles insisted that she marry him or be ruined. How could she tell him that the damage had been done many years ago?

Hero: Mr. Charles Carlyle
Heroine: Miss Elizabeth Ashton