The Paragon Bride

THE LUCKY MISS HAZLETT Miss Emmaline Hazlett considered herself the luckiest of young ladies. No longer was she a virtual slave in the rural household of her miserly guardian. She was a pampered guest in the London mansion of the wealthy Dowager Countess Langdon. And no longer did Emmaline face an odious marriage to the utterly unappealing Will Cooper. The Countess's dreamily handsome heir, Lord Cecil Garwin, wanted Emmaline as his bride. What more could she want? Certainly not the darkly attractive but menacingly mysterious Nicolas Ransom, who had his pick of the most ravishing and wanton beauties of the ton. Fortune had indeed smiled on Emmaline--but reckless love well might have had the last laugh....