Invitation to Ruin Author:Bronwen Evans Avowed bachelor, Anthony James Craven, the Earl of Wickham, is not dubbed Lord of Wicked for nothing. Anthony is determined never to marry and bear a son. His father was a cruel tyrant involved in slave trading, and Anthony is determined his father's bad blood ends with him. But when he makes a mistake and beds the wrong woman, he finds hims... more »elf caught in the parson's noose. Anthony's solution is simple. He will never make love to his sensible, quiet and reserved wife again. He will offer Melissa security and position but nothing more.
Miss Melissa Goodly is sick of being someone's obligation. Unwanted first by her parents, then by her much older brother, Melissa has never felt she belongs. Her dream is to find true love; a man who wants to be with her, not out of obligation or duty, but because he cannot live without her. She longs for children and the happy, large family, she never had growing up. So when she finds herself married to none other than the Lord of Wicked, she is determined to help Anthony, a man tormented by his own past, open his shuttered heart to love.« less