Clara & Jack · Book 1
Historical Romance
Love by Contract
A contract forced them together. A secret could destroy them.
London, 1840. In the span of a single day, Clara Ashworth loses everything that once made her life secure. A tragic accident tears her parents from her, and her father leaves behind nothing but debts – and so she herself becomes the most valuable commodity of the powerful businessman Bartholomew Crumley.
Her new guardian: Jack Crumley. Brilliant, arrogant, and an heir who knows all too well how to move people like chess pieces. Jack has been charged with making Clara presentable for polite society – but he never reckoned with her mind. With sharp wit and unbending pride, Clara challenges him, until the line between cold business calculation and a dangerous desire begins to blur.
Yet in a world where everything has its price, love is the most dangerous gamble of all. Will they break the contract to find each other – or destroy themselves on the very rules meant to bind them together?