The Reluctant Bride (Dangerous Matches, #1)

She married him from necessity. He has loved her in silence for years.

In the shadow of Napoleon's war, Emily Micklen is left with nothing but grief, scandal, and a future closing fast around her.

To escape ruin, she agrees to marry Major Angus McCartney—a scarred, taciturn soldier she barely knows, and the very man she believes has stepped too easily into her dead fiancé's place. Cold with resentment and haunted by loss, Emily cannot imagine loving the husband duty has forced upon her.

But An...