The Heir and the Spare: A Regency Historical Romance

When Lady Lavinia first meets Edmund Templeton, the heir to the Duke of Cambria, she finds him to be every inch the fist fighting, rude, obnoxious rake that rumors had painted him to be. When one of the Duke's former gambling partner's manipulates it so that Lavinia and Edmund are caught in a compromising situation the pair are forced into a hasty plot to twart a marriage of convenience, one that Lavinia fears will end in disaster.Edmund Templeton, Son of the Duke of Cambria had always been a huge admirer of wives --provided that they belonged to other men, of course. When his old love takes her revenge by forcing him into an unwanted marriage with a dowdy spinster, Edmund vows that he will not let an inconvenient thing like a bride ruin his bachelor lifestyle.By chance Edmund and Lavinia realize the sparks can't be denied and the pair have to work out this tension and that this marriage might just have a happy ending --if only they'll allow it.