The Mad Marquis

the long version

SPURRING A MAD DESIRE — Julia Westfall was being forced into marriage -- with her fiercest rival on the hunt field. True, Henry Pelham was the man to whom she'd once lost her heart, and he was still her secret dream. But what the widowed marquis proposed was hardly suitable a loveless union with no children. A woman who raced her own stallions for the thrill and challenge of it could hardly be expected to rein in her passion. Her new husband saw his dotty aunt, loopy uncle, and willful daughter as evidence that madness ran in his family, as proof that siring more offspring would be irresponsible. But Julia would show him that the craziest thing he could do was spurn her advances. For her most exciting and dashing competitor on horseback would soon be her most potent and powerful match in the bedroom.