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How To Court A Rake (Wed Within a Year, Book 1)

Name: How To Court A Rake (Wed Within a Year, Book 1)
Rating: 4.37 (62 reviews)
Author: Bronwyn Scott

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A rake, a wallflower and a fake courtship! Delight in the spicy, high-stakes first instalment of Bronwyn Scott’s new trilogy Wed Within a Year.

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🤭 Fake dating

🌶️ Spicy

Sparks fly when the wallflower…waltzes with the rake! A Wed Within a Year story. When the Crown awards spy Caine Parkhurst the title of Marquess, it’s with the outrageous stipulation that he marries within the year! Caine’s catapulted into London’s ballrooms in search of a bride, but the last thing this rakish bachelor is looking for is love…

Once a diamond, Lady Mary is now in danger of becoming a wallflower—or, worse, being married off to a man of her father’s choosing! To escape the relentless matchmaking she agrees to a fake courtship with the new Marquess. Yet his touch leaves her longing to court this rake…for real!

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How To Court A Rake (Wed Within a Year, Book 1)

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