The Pink Parasol

FOR LOVE -- OR FOR MONEY?

Lovely young Cecily Merton adored her charming, dashing father--despite his weakness for playing for larger stakes than he could afford in the aristocratic gambling rooms of London.

Now only Cecily stood between her father and total ruin. She to quickly barter her hand in marriage for enough wealth to pay his enormous debts.

Cecily thought she was willing to risk anything to win this mercenary marriage game--until she began to lose her heart to the elegant, irresistible Marcus Anstruther, a man who offered her everything except what she most desperately needed...


Original title: Lady Cecily's Dilemma as Sophie Leyton