Substitute Bride — Laurel Lamperd

When Miss Emma Napier assists Abby, her childhood friend, to escape a forced marriage, she didn't expect to meet the attractive and exciting Lord Desborough on their journey to London. His lordship is looking for a wife so he can gain control of his inheritance. The marriage will be annulled within three weeks, he tells Emma when he forces her to accept his proposal. Set up in London under her aunt, Lady Matilda's auspices, Emma encounters Lord Desborough again. She denies meeting him before. But there is the matter of that marriage. A light-hearted Regency Romance where love always finds a way.