Digital content provided by hoopla. Read by Julie-Ann Amos.
Summary:
Edmund Templeton had always been a huge admirer of wives --provided that they belonged to other men of course. When his father pays off a gambling debt by forcing him into an unwanted marriage Edmund vows that he will not let an inconvenient thing like a bride ruin his bachelor lifestyle. When Lavinia lays eyes on Edmund, she finds him to be a rude obnoxious rake that rumors had painted him to be. The Duke manipulates circumstances so that Lavinia and Edmund are caught in a compromising situation forcing the pair into a hasty plot to twart a marriage of convenience. By chance Edmund and Lavinia realized the sparks can't be denied and the pair have to work out this tension and that this marriage might just have a happy ending --but that's only if they don't get killed first.
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