Unexpected Courtships — Alina K. Field

Two ladies who never expected to marry...Two noble gentlemen, each in need of a wife...LILIANA'S LETTERA promise to his long-dead sister forces Lord Grigsby back into society to broker the marriage of his disreputable nephew to the heiress whose money can save the earldom.Liliana Ashford has been hired to help an heiress pass muster with the ton and snare a titled husband. Though, if she had a magic wand, she'd turn her charge's fiancé back into the toad he truly was.But she never wished him dead! As the young Earl's sordid death evokes the scandal of the season, a shadow from Liliana's own past appears, threatening her carefully crafted world. Grigsby sets about finding his nephew's killer...and Liliana's secrets. Meanwhile she scrambles to make a new match for the girl, because finding a husband of her own is out of the question—or is it?COURTED BY THE EARLChasing a rumor of a clandestine marriage, the reluctant new Earl of Hackwell combs London for his late brother's secret wife and son, anxious to return the title, find the murderous woman, and head back to his regiment.Annabelle Harris came to London to find her disgraced sister, the mistress to the Earl of Hackwell. But the Earl has been murdered, Annabelle has his son, and the boy's mother, her sister has disappeared again.Now she must clear her sister's name, dodge the handsome new Earl's investigating, and keep him from taking the boy away. When their paths converge, the reluctant Earl and the independent lady find themselves rethinking their goals, and battling the real murderer together.PREVIOUSLY TITLED BELLA'S BANDBonus Short Story:THE GHOST OF DEPFORD HALLIt's her mother's last All Hallow's Eve.When family, friends, and tenants gather, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts are banned from this All Hallow's Eve party.Only, no one told the Ghost of Depford Hall!