While Lord Rutherford had no love for his title or his family, he did enjoy all the things money could buy, so he agreed to the terms, all the while believing he would only have to be faithful and sober for the required one year before returning to his nefarious ways. He had to commit to being faithful to Charlotte and sober, as well as a few other untenable demands, for one full year. However, her father had other ideas and forced a union between the two, with one very stiff stipulation for Lord Rutherford. Charlotte, on the other hand, wanted nothing more than her freedom to live the way she wanted and not the way her father did.

However, after the demise of his father, the only way for him to survive would be for him to marry an heiress with a very large dowry. Up to the point of his father's demise, he was not above selling himself to women in order to maintain his lifestyle of debauchery. Lord Rutherford, upon inheriting his father's title, also inherited his father's massive debts. It was about Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, a man known to be one of the worst scoundrels in London, and Charlotte Lancaster, half English, half American heiress known for being a very tall, clumsy, red-head. And when he does, Charlotte begins to see him in a new light-not as the scandalous charmer she married, but as the husband she just might adore.īook 4 of the Rescued from Ruin series was not like the first 4 books. When her father demands a startling price for his daughter’s hand-one year of fidelity and sobriety-Chatham must change his libertine ways … at least temporarily.

Love grows in the most unexpected places… That shouldn’t prove a problem, for he could not possibly want someone like her, and the feeling is mutual. But she’s a practical sort, and a year with the devil might buy her freedom … provided she can resist his seductive charms. Charlotte wants her independence, not a husband, and certainly not a disreputable devil who renders her weak and wobbly with a single scorching glance. While she dreams of leaving England for a life of trade in America, her father schemes to trade her dowry for a title-and Marchioness of Rutherford will do nicely. Deeply in debt and down to his last farthing, he must marry nothing short of an absolute fortune, or risk utter ruin.Įnter Miss Charlotte Lancaster, unfashionably tall heiress to just such a fortune and a clumsy, redheaded disaster in her five London seasons.

A walking scandal surviving on little more than wits, whisky, and wicked skills in the bedchamber, Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, is at the end of his rope.

The Devil Is a Marquess by Elisa Braden