My Wicked Marquess

Max, the Marquess of Rotherstone, has one task left before he can repair his family's name: he needs a wife. In his view she must be beautiful, well bred and above reproach, a lady whom London Society will accept without a murmur.

He belongs to the Inferno Club, a group of aristocrats the ton regards as scandalous and unfit for polite company. Their public reputation is for debauchery. In private they are warriors who act to protect king and country, and Max knows his membership works against any hope of respectability.

Daphne Starling does not fit his list. She is lovely, and Max notices at once, but a rejected suitor has left her reputation badly damaged. Marrying her would only feed the gossips.

Max cannot stay away from her, and the challenge of proving the talk wrong appeals to him as much as she does. He sets out to win her hand, determined to show that a notorious marquess can make a fine husband.

This is a historical romance set among London's aristocracy, built on a reluctant courtship and a hero who is pulled toward the very woman he swore to avoid. The tone is romantic and playful, with a thread of secret-service adventure behind the ballroom scandal.