Katy Madison
Boston heiress Lydia Hamilton overhears her fiancÃ©â€™s scheme to wrest control of the family business by wedding her. Refusing to be any manâ€™s pawn, she runs away to England. A lone woman would stand out, but masquerading as a young man named Leonard, she can have the adventure of her life and support herself with gambling. ,Victor Bartlett, the Earl of Wedmont, has sworn off marriage, but he didnâ€™t think heâ€™s sworn off women. When he rescues a brash American gambler, who has won too much and too often, Victor finds his feelings for the youth unsettling. To scare the runaway back to America, he challenges Leonard to a duel with notoriously inaccurate and cursed pistols. ,But the pistols have away of changing everything, and Leonard is wounded. Victor didnâ€™t mean to shoot the boy at all, but when he discovers Leonard is a girl what can he do, but take her home to heal? But who will heal whom . . .
Romance,Historical Romance,Historical,Romance,Historical,Regency,Historical,Historical Fiction
The Wedding Runaway