Royal's Bride (The Bride Trilogy)

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Though he is a tilted nobleman Royal Dewar is singularly unluckyforced to choose between his soul mate and his salvation. After years abroad Royal has returned to Bransford Castle to find his father dying and the family treasury nearly empty. Then the old duke wrests a final promise from his guilt-ridden son: that Royal will marry heiress Jocelyn Caulfield and restore the estate to its former glory. However it is not his fiance who quickens Royals pulse but rather her beautiful cousin Lily Moran. Penniless Lily knows that nothing can come of their undeniable attractionbut there is a way she can help Royal. Enlisting some questionable characters from her past Lily concocts an elaborate ruse to recover some of the Bransford fortune from a notorious confidence artist. As the dangerous scheme unfolds Lily and Royal are thrown together in pursuit of the very thingmoneythat keeps them apart.