num_pages: 338
description: Vivez la vie pleinementLive life to the fullest. Thats always been Marie-Anne de Vauteuils motto. As a Frenchwoman of highly questionable upbringing she was shunned by genteel society when her fianc died years ago leaving her a penniless fallen woman. Almost married almost a widowShe retreated to an isolated village where no one knows or cares about her sordid past. And with no one to answer to she will do as she pleases including eating cake until her corset strings pop if she so chooses. But then an invitation to London on a mission of mercy from the very family that cast her aside lands Marie-Anne back in societyand into the arms of a man who can be nothing but trouble. When life gives you lemonsMake petit fours. Wealthy American businessman Mason is a) accidentally engaged b) desperate to get out of it and c) neither wealthy nor a businessman. Marriage is the last thing on his mind. Money however is always of utmost importance. Hes only in London to gather material for the gossip pamphlets he illustrates his scheme to make as much money as he can before hes found out and skips town. But when he meets the irresistible Marie-Anne she makes him rethink his life as a fraud and for once consider his true talent as an artist. Her carefree attitude about life in generaland sex in particularhas Mason hoping for something he never believed possible: A proper life with a not-so-proper wife. 
language: English
title: House of Cads
publisher: None