title: Touched by a Marquess
author: McKinney, Sally
description: Lady Alice, recently turned eighteen is beautiful, clever and rich. She also has designs on her sister’s fiancé and, with the impetuosity of youth, has decided to steal him from her. As the youngest daughter of Duke Beckham, all her brothers and sisters are married off but one: Claire, who is due to marry a Marquess, Lord Clayton Atwater. Claire’s fiancé seems deeply in love with her, but Alice has her own designs on him and neither her maid nor her best friend from childhood can dissuade her in her plans to win him from Claire. If her scheming is to pay off it will take more than mere flirting. She wants to feel the touch of the Marquess, and Alice will need to risk even her own safety in a bid to gain his affections. Can Alice’s selfishness be redeemed by love? Or will she destroy herself and those she claims to care about? ‘The course of true love never did runs smooth,’ that was never truer than in ‘Touched by the Marquess’.