title: The Rushden Legacy
author: Randolph, Ellen (1)
description: A Hasty Deception...
  
  Desperate to discourage the marriage proposal of the insufferable George Algernon, Lady Diana Bellrose confides to him that she is secretly engaged to her best friend's brother, Roger, Baron Rushden. But to her utter dismay, her "betrothal" soon becomes the talk of the ton. Worse, Lord Rushden is determined to go through with the charade!
  
  But Diana was unaware that for generations the Rushden heir has died before his thirtieth birthday and Roger, at twenty-nine, is convinced his life is about to end. Urged to marry and produce an heir, he seizes the opportunity provided by her artful ruse... while Diana finds herself quite aflutter. Was it her strange predicament--or Roger's commanding presence--that set her innocent heart beating so?