A Historical Romantic Comedy
Historical Romance
Of All Men, He’s Mine!
She will give him her hand. She has no intention of giving him anything else.
Clara de Vernelles knows exactly what she wants in a husband: wealth, polish, and preferably the man she is already promised to. Jack Rowland offers a battlefield limp, an unruly beard, and an infuriating ability to answer back.
France, 1595. When her father’s debts threaten a glittering marriage, the inconvenient officer becomes Clara’s last respectable option. She will give him her hand. She has no intention of giving him anything else.
Unfortunately, Jack refuses to play the villain she has assigned him. He meets her sharp tongue with laughter, asks for her opinion, and takes no for an answer. Then a royal reward turns the overlooked soldier into a duke. Just as Clara begins to wonder who on earth she has married, duty takes him away.
Left with his formidable family, envious courtiers, and a stream of maddeningly engaging letters, Clara is determined to remain unmoved. Her former fiancé is only too willing to help. Yet his promises of freedom are beginning to sound remarkably like demands.
Between dangerous favors, spirited quarrels, and letters she certainly isn’t waiting for, Clara must decide whose word she can trust—and whether the husband she never wanted might be the one man worth choosing.