num_pages: 328
description: In this stunning series debut from New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter a duke's mysterious bequest brings fortuneand passionto three young women... Minerva Hepplewhite has learned the hard way how to take care of herself. When an intruder breaks into her home she doesn't swoon or simper. Instead she wallops the rogue over the head and ties him uponly to realize he is Chase Radnor the man who nearly got her convicted of her late husband's murder. Now he's insisting that Minerva has inherited a fortune from his uncle a wealthy Duke. Only one thing could surprise her more: her sudden attraction to this exasperating man... Chase can't decide whether Minerva is a wronged woman or a femme fatale. Either way he's intrigued. Since the scandal surrounding her husband's death she has set up a discreet detective business to rival Chase's own. She may be the perfect person to help him uncover the truth about his uncle's demise. But as proximity gives way to mutual seduction Chase realizes he craves a much deeper alliance...
language: English
title: Heiress for Hire
publisher: Zebra