title: The Marquess Lends a Hand
author: Ellis, Monique
description: ONE WAY FOR A LADY TO MAKE A MATCH...
  Phoebe Parmenter was in a terrible predicament: she was being blackmailed into marriage by her beloved stepmother's wastrel cousin. Under her father's thumb all her life, Phoebe didn't particularly mourn the old tyrant's death in a supposed riding accident. Unfortunately, Philip Fordyce is prepared to prove the squire's death was no accident. If her stepmother is not to hang for murder, Phoebe will have to wed this man she despises.
  
  ...IS TO KIDNAP THE GENTLEMAN!
  Piers Duchesne, the rakish Marquess of Stovall, was on his way to a friend's country estate for the Christmas holidays when a pair of schoolgirls disguised as highwaymen abducted him. Phoebe Parmenter's well-meaning sisters pleaded for the nobleman's assistance. Bored and possessed of a considerable sense of humor, Duchesne found himself playing the role of detective in a most peculiar murder investigation... and about to save a damsel in real distress. But neither he nor Phoebe anticipated the perils that awaited them... or a blossoming romance filled with all the wonder and mystery of true love...