title: Sweet Bravado
author: Meadowes, Alicia
description: It was not A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN
  
  It was a union decreed in her will by Aunt Sophie. She planned to end the feud between two branches of her family by naming joint heirs. Valentin, Viscount Ardsmore, and Nicole Harcourt, daughter of his disgraced uncle and a French ballet dancer, would inherit Aunt Sophie's fortune only if they married each other.
  
  And wed, they did. But Aunt Sophie's plan for peace had stirred up a new battle between the fiery, little French girl, who wanted love--and fidelity--from her new husband, and the virile viscount, who expected his wife to want only what he wanted to give.....