title: Carnival of Love
author: Dickson, Helen
description: A CONVENIENT HUSBAND
  
  Rescuing Lavinia Renshaw from a Venetian canal was one thing. Accepting her surprising proposition of marriage was quite another. Maxim Purnell thrived on taking risks. However, his situation was complicated enough without taking on a wife.
  
  But there was no denying Lavinia had succeeded in piquing his curiosity -- and desire. To come in to her considerable legacy she needed a husband, and she intended their arrangement to be a marriage of convenience only. So what would happen if Maxim decided to make her his wife for real?