num_pages: 372
description: Beth Howell needs to find her dowry post haste. After her good-for-nothing first husband married herand two other women unbeknownst to them allshes left financially ruined and relegated to living with her brother who cares more for his horses than he does his blood relatives. If Beth fails to acquire her funds her brother will force her to marry someone fifty years her senior and missing half his teeth. Shed prefer to avoid that dreadful fate. But her now-deceased husband Meri absconded with her money mere days after their illegitimate marriage. To find it Beth will have to leave town and retrace Meris steps if shes to take her future into her own hands.Julian Raleah Marquess of Grayson cares not a whit for social norms and generally growls at anyone in his path. Grayson has had a heart of stone ever since his engagement to Beth Howell went down in flameslong before she married that cad Meri and sealed her own fate for good. But now shes on his doorstep asking for use of his carriage and accompaniment on the hunt to find her lost dowry. Surely Grayson cannot go on the road with the woman who has occupied his thoughts for the past decade. Yet knowing she needs him how can he resist helping her this one last time? And maybe thats just enough time to change the ending to their over-too-soon love story.
language: English
title: How to Best a Marquess
publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks