title: Tarrisbroke Hall
author: Cresswell, Jasmine
description: Marianne was a most unwilling bride...
  
  And the Earl of Tarrisbroke was an equally unwilling husband.
  
  But neither of them had any choice.
  
  Marianne Johnson, rich young widow of a merchant, could not destroy her family's one chance to be so close to the nobility. And the earl, faced with impending financial ruin, saw marriage to a plebeian fortune as his only hope.
  
  Not for a moment did anyone expect this unlikely pair to care for each other.
  
  Especially when, at first meeting, Marianne appeared as a vulgar, overdressed female, and the earl as an unremitting snob!
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  Mills and Boon UK Edition:
  
  Utter ruin confronts the Earl of Tarrisbroke.  Faced with discharging his father's mountainous gambling debts, her reluctantly agrees to trade his aristocratic title for a plebian fortune.  Marianne Johnson, the wealthy young widow of an elderly merchant, is furious to find herself chosen as a fortune-hunter's bride.  But before the Earl can discover his widow's true worth, or Marianne realises that fortune-hunters can be devastatingly attractive, they have to unite to protect the priceless Crown of St Helen Theodora at Tarrisbroke Hall...
  
  Hero: Quentin Rodbourne
  Heroine: Marianne Johnson
  
  