num_pages: 228
description: The Wicked Baron is the first in the Blackhaven Brides series set in a newly fashionable spa town on the beautiful Cumbrian coast where the great and the bad of visiting Regency society turn local life upside down. Orphan Gillie Muir makes ends meet by holding genteel card parties for friends and visitors to the newly fashionable spa town of Blackhaven. But when Lord Wickenden known as the Wicked Baron makes her a shocking proposal her world is turned upside down. Jaded and bored Lord Wickenden has his own reasons for joining the house party at Braithwaite Castle. One of them is to oblige an ex-mistress by detaching her son from the local gaming den hussy who has ensnared him. But confronted by Gillies unexpected charm and innocence Wickenden abandons his original plan of simply taking her for himself. Instead he becomes embroiled in her bizarre problems which include saving her reputation and her life keeping the Watch away from her card parties and hiding an injured smuggler who was once kind to her. The infuriating and devastating Wickenden soon has Gillies heart in a spin. But when she discovers he means to fight a duel over her  and everyone knows the wicked baron never misses - shell go to any length to save his life and his soul. Even elope with another man. 
language: None
title: The Wicked Baron
publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.