Safe in Paradise

the long version

Zarina Bryden was so beautiful that her suitors would have married her even without her immense fortune. But after a successful London Season, a shock awaited Zarina--her Guardian demanded that she wed a Duke. But this was no Fairy Tale match, for the Duke was a widower more than twice Zarina's age... The determined heiress proposed a scheme to, her childhood playmate, now the destitute Earl of Linwood. On a steamer to India, their ruse became real, when a suspicious Ship's Captain insisted upon marrying the young couple. And before long a shy love blossomed into a Fairy-Tale indeed--a lifetime of Divine happiness for all the days of their lives....