Forced to cast aside her free-spirited ways when she marries Adam Drake, a renowned goverment member, Adele Morrow, believing Adam to be very dull and boring, discovers a very different side to her new husband when he transforms himself into a dashing rake. Original.

Plain and intelligent heiress Beatrice Chaswell could hardly believe her luck when the incredibly handsome and kindly Earl of Faulconer, Gabriel Baxtor, actually began to court her. And in no time at all, the dashing earl had won Beatrice's heart. But Beatrice's joy soon turns to ashes when she discovers on her wedding day that Gabriel is actually a fortune hunter, and that he has married her solely for her fortune. Angry and bitter, Beatrice turns against Gabriel, treating him with a coldness and disdain totally foreign to her warm nature.

When a midnight rendezvous with the wrong man leads to a marriage of convenience, headstrong Victoria Mallory and her new husband, Lord Claredon, a notorious rake, must cast aside their differences to overcome danger - an effort that leads to unexpected love and passion. Original.