The Model Husband — Sorcha MacMurrough

Ellen Jerome seems to attract rakes and rattles like honey does flies. Handsome young doctor Ash Paignton rescues her from ravishment at the hands of notorious fortune-hunter and Man About Town Timothy Bridges.

Horrified by what nearly happened, Ellen seeks to retire from society and live the rest of her life in terrified seclusion. But Ash has other ideas. He sees a confused and wounded soul, and a spark of sensual fire within Ellen just waiting for the right man to nurture the flames. He helps her build her confidence in herself as a woman with choices, not a victim of circumstances.

Ellen blossoms under Ash's tutelage in the ways of the world, and soon longs for lessons in love from the exotically handsome man. Her desires soon blaze into a conflagration as Ellen realises she can take her destiny into her own hands.

Ellen soon has a proposition for Ash: take her as his mistress and teach her the ways of the world.

Ash has a counter-proposal: dare to take him as her husband, and live the life she has always dreamed of, even if it means defying all of upper-class English society by marrying an outsider.

Ellen is torn between her sensual fascination for Ash and his very unusual Indian upbringing, and her fear that they are too different to ever be happy...