An English Entanglement
(Gilded Age Belles Romance)
Lucille Van Zandt has always been more captivated by her whimsical newspaper strip, Lucy LaMode’s Fashionable Frolics, than Manhattan’s social whirl. But when her parents insist she travel to London to secure a titled husband, Lucy has one condition: she will not give up her comic.
Frederick, Marquess of Harlington, has one hope: this marriage will be real. His family’s estate is faltering, and without substantial dowries, his beloved sisters face uncertain futures. A wealthy bride is not a romantic ambition—it is a necessity.
Lucy’s fortune could restore everything he stands to lose. Yet the more Frederick admires her independence, the harder it becomes to view their courtship as a transaction. And Lucy, determined to protect her art at any cost, may find that the life she agreed to is nothing like the one she feared.