The Captive Bride — Lucy Phillips Stewart

The most dazzling beauties of London would have given all to trade places with Miss Annette Redding yet this spirited young lady fought with fury against her fate as unwilling bride of the wealthy, the handsome, the insufferably arrogant Earl of Ardley.

"A marriage in name only," Ardley had promised, only to begin a cat-and-mouse game with Annette's inexperienced heart. Never, Annette vowed, would she let him suspect the passion he awoke within her. Never would her pride let her become his adoring plaything. But never could she have guessed the strange turn her dilemma would take, as intrigue! and abduction plucked her from the aristocratic heights and plunged her deep into danger. Glittering with the romance of the Regency, this enthralling tale brings to life an unforgettable heroine who discovers there are far greater perils than desire, and that love is far easier to defy than to defeat.