The third novel in New York Times bestseller Jane Feather’s sexy and scintillating Blackwater Brides trilogy about the bonds of family and the lure of romance.The headstrong and beautiful Alexandra Douglas is summoned to London from the seminary for young ladies upon the death of her father, Sir Arthur Douglas. There, the family lawyer explains to her that she and her invalid sister, Sylvia, have been left penniless, disinherited, delegitimized. Her father had divorced her mother on the grounds of insanity, making the children of the marriage illegitimate, but still allowing him to remarry. On Sir Arthur’s death, his considerable wealth and estates passed to a distant relative, while his widowed second wife and stepson received handsome inheritances.
Alex is determined to get the inheritance that she and her sister are due.When she sees an advertisement for a librarian at her former family home, she applies in the guise of an impoverished middle-aged spinster with experience as a school librarian.But when The Honorable Peregrine Sullivan arrives for a weekend of hunting with Alex’s stepbrother and immediately notices that the librarian is not who she appears to be, she finds it impossible to keep her distance. With her elaborate scheme unraveling and her future in jeopardy, Alex must rely on her wits—and her new love—to make sure justice is served.
Blackwater Brides Series:
1.Rushed to the Altar
2. A Wedding Wager
3. An Unsuitable Bride
Jane Robotham was born on 1945 in Cairo, Egypt, where her British parents were stationated. She grew up in the New Forest, in the south of England. She obtained a master's degree in applied social studies from Oxford University.
Married with three children, she was trained as a social worker. In 1978, her family moved to New Jersey, she pursued her career in psychiatric social work. After moving in 1981 to Washington, D.C., she started writing romances. In 1984, she sold five contemporany romances to Jove in the Second Chance colection. Later she sold her first historical romances to diferent publishing companies under the name of Jane Feather.
Now, she is a New York Times bestselling, award–winning writer, with more than ten million copies of her book in print.
