title: The Earl's Revenge
author: Lane, Allison
description: The Runaway Bride
  
  Elaine Thompson prayed she would never see the Earl of Bridgeport again. She had been barely past girlhood when she fled a forced marriage to this libertine lord who had wanted a wife only to produce an heir. Now, she was a strong and independent woman who shuddered as she heard stories of the earl's increasingly infamous womanizing and scandalous scorn of morality.
  
  Little did Elaine dream that Bridgeport would find her in the remote corner of England where she thought herself so safe. Even less did she expect that he would hunger for satisfaction for the injury she had done to his pride by abandoning him at the altar. But Elaine vowed never to yield to the iron strength or seductive wiles of this man who had made eager playthings of so many willing women--even when the revenge that this irresistible rake sought turned out to be sinfully sweet....
  
  Hero: Mark Allan Parrish, Earl of Bridgeport
  Heroine: Elaine Thompson