num_pages: 432
description: A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Tall dark and dour the notorious Captain Jasper Blunt was once hailed a military hero but tales abound of his bastard children and his haunted estate in Yorkshire. What he requires now is a rich wife to ornament his isolated ruin and he has his sights set on the enchanting Julia Wychwood. For Julia an incurable romantic cursed with a crippling social anxiety navigating a London ballroom is absolute torture. The only time Julia feels any degree of confidence is when shes on her horse. Unfortunately a young lady cant spend the whole of her life in the saddle so Julia makes an impetuous decision to take her future by the reinsshe proposes to Captain Blunt. In exchange for her dowry and her hand Jasper must promise to grant her freedom to do as she pleases. To rideand to readas much as she likes without masculine interference. He readily agrees to her conditions with one provision of his own: Julia is forbidden from going into the tower rooms of his estate and snooping around his affairs. But the more she learns of the beastly former hero the more intrigued she becomes
language: English
title: The Belle of Belgrave Square
publisher: Berkley