The professor made it very clear
"You have no family, no home, and no prospect of marrying," Duert ter Laan-Luitinga told Venetia, as if she wasn't fully aware of her precarious position.
His solution to the problem took her by surprise. Marriage -- to him! Not a love match, of course, but a marriage of convenience.
Heroine: Venetia Forbes
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