Autumn Vows — Barbara Hazard

A Reticent Lady

Theodora Meredith has landed an earl, and all the tongues in the ton are wagging. Lucas Whitney, Earl of Canford, asked for her hand, yet no one asked Theodora how she felt about an arranged marriage with a nobleman who thinks her witty but scarcely knows her. Far worse, he doesn't know she is secretly in love with him.

When Lucas cast about for a wife of convenience, Theodora seemed available. True, the fashionable lord was marrying strictly to obtain an heir, but he is appalled when his kisses seem to leave the lady completely unmoved. How could he know that Theodora was only pretending indifference? For she has resolved to resist his passion, never to surrender--unless by some wondrous miracle she can make her husband-in-name-only fall passionately, irretrievably in love....