A marriage of necessity…with a man who shuns her.

Despite being a duke’s sister, Olivia Whitcombe is shunned by Society due to one insurmountable flaw: her illegitimacy. Taunted by debutantes and rejected by suitors, her debut Season couldn’t get any worse—until she’s caught in a compromising position with a taciturn stranger.

To save the Whitcombe name, Olivia yields to her brother’s demands and finds herself transported to a neglected manor and forced to marry a silent, brooding earl with pain and anger in his eyes, who shuns her at every turn.

Charles Devereaux hasn’t spoken a word since witnessing his mother’s violent death as a child. On inheriting the earldom and a mountain of debts, he returns to Penham Park, his hated childhood home, and reluctantly enters the Marriage Mart. When a debutante of doubtful birth falls—literally—into his arms, Charles curses himself for being snared so easily.

But dark secrets and the specter of Death linger within the walls of Penham Park, and when Charles’s heart begins to soften toward his bride, it may be too late.

Tropes You'll Love:

• Opposites attract
• Hero with selective mutism
• Heroine is illegitimate
• Marriage of convenience
• Compromised heroine
• Childhood trauma
• Brooding hero
• Grumpy/sunshine

Misfits of the Ton

Book 1 - Tomboy of the Ton

Book 2 - Ruined by the Ton

Book 3 - Thief of the Ton

Book 4 - Oddity of the Ton

Book 5 - Harpy of the Ton

Book 6 - Heartbreaker of the Ton

Book 7 - Doxy for the Ton

Book 8 - Duellist for the Ton

Book 9 - Taciturn in the Ton

Book 10 - Ghost of the Ton

Book 11 - Jilted by the Ton

Book 12 - Chaperone for the Ton