July 1, 2006
Princess Isabella Di Cassilis had come to Fleet Prison looking for a man. After her late husband left her with considerable outstanding debts and no money to pay them, Isabella finds she has three options: marriage, exile, or debtor's prison. In order to avoid a future behind bars, Isabella needs to find a man already in jail for debt, since after marrying Isabella all of her financial obligations would become his responsibility. The one problem with Isabella's plan is that when she meets her husband-to-be, John Ellis, she discovers he just happens to be Marcus Stockhaven, the Earl of Stockbridge, and the very same man Isabella left standing at the altar 12 years earlier. With a wicked sense of wit, a dash of dangerous intrigue, and a generous measure of sizzling sexual chemistry, Cornick puts her own clever twist on the classic marriage-of-convenience plot and creates a superbly entertaining -Regency-era historical romance.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)