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He's running out of time...
James Hargrave, Earl of Arden, urgently needs a wife. He's resigned himself to a marriage of convenience and has even chosen a bride: Kate Honeycourt, his best friend's sister.
Kate has been on the shelf for years. Why, then, does she so firmly turn him down? Surely she can't be holding out for a love match?
But Kate has a proposal of her own: she'll find James a bride he can fall in love with.
Armed with a list of requirements, Kate sets out to find James the perfect wife. But things don't progress as either of them expect...
A delightfully sexy and heartwarming friends-to-lovers Regency romance from award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Emily Larkin.
Length: Full-length novel of 68,000 words
Heat level: A Regency romance with a steamy love scene
If you love page-turning historical romances brimming with emotion, humor, and captivating characters, then this novel is for you!
About the author
Emily Larkin is the USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling "sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining," and "ridiculously wonderful." When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking, preferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye. Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards, and has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year and New Zealand Romance of the Year awards.
