The Substitute Bridegroom — Charlotte Louise Dolan

A Marriage of Necessity

Elizabeth Goldsborough was the happiest of young ladies. Not only was she the Incomparable of the London season, she was to wed the most handsome gentleman of the ton, the dashing Simon Bellgrave.

Then, shockingly, all was stripped from her. An accidental encounter with the arrogant Captain Darius St. John left her with no choice but to wed this man she barely knew. Now she was a wife in name only in a marriage of necessity...trying desperately not to fall in love with a bridegroom who had asked for her hand out of honor but bad no interest in her heart....