Miss Chadwick's Champion — Melinda McRae

Dandy in Distress

Lord Gareth would do anything to ensure that his family's eight-hundred-year-old castle survived. But as the walls fell down around him, and as Gareth 's youngest brother incurred huge gambling debts, things did not look promising. The only way to restore the family fortune was to marry an heiress-a rare commodity in the dales of Yorkshire...

Susanna Chadwick knew that being an heiress offered its share of problems. Her greedy cousin had already attempted to force her hand in marriage in order to obtain her inheritance. And now, after trudging through the mire and pouring rain to escape his clutches, she had ended up here-in this crumbling old castle, with Lord Gareth and his brothers watching over her. She wouldn't dare tell them her secret. And while she didn't want another suitor to steal her hand, she didn't expect that one of them would instead steal her heart. ...