An Improper Companion

the long version

A DEVIL'S CHOICE Heather Wade faced a thoroughly devilish dilemma when she heard the astounding proposal of the wealthy and notorious Sir Leslie Kinwell. This man who had brutishly dishonored her virtue now calmly announced she was to become his wife. If she refused, she would be sent from Kinwell's castle -- to be cast alone, penniless, and shamed on the streets of London. If she accepted, she would be bound in marriage to a man she could only despise as an unqualified monster of depravity. Heather was an innocent no longer, but she still had ever so much to learn about the ways of men and the world --and her own proud and perplexed young heart....