The marriage bargain

the long version

A golden-curled beauty hidden in a rubbish heap, clad only in a filthy nightgown, was the last thing Lord Beckett Thornby expected to stumble across in the dead of night, in a London back alley. But there she lay COLD, wet and unconscious. Beckett felt compelled to rescue her, drawn to care for the mysterious angel who had fallen into his life. Bathed, changed and rested was the last condition in which Lady Isobel Hampton expected to find herself. Especially when she'd awoken in an unfamiliar bed, next to an unfamiliar--YET devastatingly gorgeous--ARISTOCRAT. And until a marriage of convenience became a meeting of two soul-mates, the last place they expected to find true love was in each others arms.