The Unofficial Suitor — Charlotte Louise Dolan

Beauty for sale

Lady Cassiopeia Anderby wished she were not an Earl's daughter and strikingly lovely, to boot. For her heartless half brother, Geoffm, Earl of Blackstone, was auctioning her blue-blooded beauty to the highest bidder in the marriage mart.

Only one man could save her from being sacrificed to Geoffrey's financial need. He was Richard Hawke, a scandalous speculator in matters of money and a shocking cynic in matters of love. This handsome adventurer offered Cassie safe haven from a marriage made in hell -- if she took the word of honor of a man who had none, and put herself in the hands of a man who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted....