A Heart in Peril

the long version

A Beauty At Bay Miss Christina Godfrey was single and content to stay that way. But it was unlikely that this innocent young lady would dwell in unwedded bliss long. For Christina was an heiress to a wealth that drew fortune hunters like ravenous wolves. Two men led the pack. One was the odious Mr. George Morley, whom Christina's tyrannical stepmother, Louisa, urged on Christina for reasons that only Louisa knew. The other was the Marquess of Aldric, the most magnificently handsome rake in the realm, who could and did have any woman he wanted, but who needed more than that to reverse his family's ruin. Christina faced the cruellest of choices. She could give her band to a man who could never win or wound her heart. Or she could give herself to a man who could steal her heart with a kiss--and then ruthlessly break it....