Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, needs a prostitute. Not in the usual way, however. His wealthy uncle's will promises to divide his huge fortune among his nephews if each rescues a fallen woman ... by marrying her! And since Jasper's estates were already mortgaged to the hilt before he inherited them, when he catches a pretty young prostitute trying to pick his pocket, he immediately makes his proposal.
Clarissa Astley is not at all what Jasper believes. The orphaned daughter of a prosperous merchant, she is searching the seedier districts of London for her young brother, abducted by their evil guardian, who wants the little boy's inheritance. But she needs powerful help, and the darkly handsome Earl of Blackwater is certainly that. So she pretends to be exactly what he assumed --- a risky charade for an innocent virgin. But when passion flares between Jasper and Clarissa, the deception becomes even more difficult to handle.
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.
