The Marriage Contract

There's no place like home, but even ruby slippers won't get Claire Atherton there.

For clair, home is Fairlove, Virginia, and a Federal Era house built by her ancestors. Although the house still stands, it might as well be over the rainbow, because the man who owned it—the man who let it fall to ruin—is the same man who destroyed her parents. But sometimes even rich, evil men fail to get their way…

Nick Dylan's father was always manipulative. Still, it surprises Nick to learn that his fat...