No Groom at the Inn: A Dukes Behaving Badly Novella

Megan Frampton s delightful characters and delicious sense of humor always entertain!

- Sabrina Jeffries

In this Dukes Behaving Badly holiday novella, a young lady entertains a sudden proposal of marriage to a man she s only just met

What does a lady do when a man she s never seen before offers his hand in marriage? Lady Sophronia Bettesford doesn t scream and run away. Instead, she accepts the shocking proposition. After all, what s her other choice? To live with her cousin, caring for six children and a barnyard full of chickens?

James Archer has roamed the world, determined never to settle down. He s faced danger and disaster he fears nothing and no one except his mother and her matchmaking ways. So when ordered to attend a Christmastime house party filled with holiday cheer and simpering young misses, he produces a fianc e!

Sophronia and James vow to pretend to be in love for one month. But when they promise to give each other a Christmas kiss, it becomes clear that this pact made out of necessity might just be turning into love.

An Avon Romance