An Amiable Arrangement

the long version

MARRYING MYSTERY Miss Lucy Meredith thought she knew what she was doing when she wed Richard Blount over the opposition of her father and her brother. True, the marriage was arranged by mail. True, she had not seen Richard for eight long years. But she was in need of a husband, Richard was in need of a wife, and their union would solve both their problems. But when Lucy married Richard and went to live with him and his motherless children in his lonely manor on the windswept Devon coast, she found a man haunted by a dark past, tormented by unknown demons ... a man who could freeze her with icy rage as easily as he could melt her with a burning kiss ... a man with a secret she had to discover even if it meant that her marriage was a mockery and her love a fatal trap ...