A Loveless Marriage

"Well it is unfortunate that you will be saddled with a husband, despite your preference to remain a spinster," Mr Wilkes said with a smirk.

"I beg your pardon?"

The faintest alarm flickered in his eyes.

"You don't really intend to refuse me?"

The look on his face turned to that of a bewildered schoolboy. Frederick Wilkes was not used to refusal.

"You don't really mean to propose marriage to a lady you have just met?"

London, 1910. A strange bequest in a will leads to Mary Taylor hastily marrying reckless playboy Frederick Wilkes. Fred has a bad reputation but it is the seemingly moral Mary's past that threatens to destroy them both.

A story of love, betrayal and murder.
Best ranks: #1 in literary fiction, #1 in historical fiction #5 romance