The Convenient Felstone Marriage (Harlequin Historical Book 454)

"I have a proposal for you ..." The last place respectable governess Ianthe Holt ever expected to be proposed to was in a train carriage ... by a stranger ... who had just accused her of trying to trap another man into marriage! Shipping magnate Robert Felstone may be dashing, but he's also insufferable, impertinent--and Ianthe's only possible savior from her uncertain fate. She's hesitant to play the perfect Felstone wife, but Robert soon shows Ianthe there's more to him than meets the eye, and more to marriage than vows .. In Victorian England, a stranger on a train may rescue a young woman from a marriage she dreads—all due to a misunderstanding . . . Shortlisted for a 2018 RoNA Award After losing both parents, Ianthe Holt is being dragged by her brother to the wilds of Yorkshire—and pressured to accept a proposal from an ancient baronet to whom he owes money. Every attempt Ianthe has made to avoid the man's off-putting attention, from acting distant to dressing in unflattering clothes, has failed. As she tries desperately to argue her case, her brother simply advises her to grit her teeth and soon enough she'll be a rich widow. Then the handsome gentleman who'd been dozing next to them in the train carriage overhears and chastises her sharply for what seems to him her mercenary scheme. Ianthe's protestations do her no good—and she is only more flabbergasted when he proposes that she marry him instead! But the attractive shipbuilder has his own reasons for doing so—and the baronet is not taking rejection well . . .