The Marquess

From NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice: "...a rousing good tale that is alternately merry, mischievous" Ann McGuire, Romance Reader

A soldier who despises women and a woman who despises soldiers must depend on each other to survive.

Scarred in a duel over a feckless female, Gavin Lawrence leaves America to take up his new duty as Marquess of Effingham, vowing never to care about others again. But he does care about protecting his crumbling new home--the secret passages apparently conceal a...