The Disgraced Viscount (Regency Romance)

Sometimes, love is blind. Other times, it’s evil.Rebecca Thorne is both betrothed and in love. However, these attachments are to two different men. Three years ago, her grandfather, the Earl of Weymouth, arranged a marriage between Rebecca and the future Duke of Surrey, Thomas Pemberton. But when Thomas mysteriously disappeared one night, Rebecca and her grandfather were left bound by a contract they could never fulfill. When the Duke of Surrey, Thomas’s father, dies unexpectedly, the prodigal son returns to London. He strives to make up for lost time, spending his days pouring over his late father’s books and trying to get his large estate back in order. This also means that he must uphold his end of the contract with the Thornes. After meeting Rebecca for the first time, Thomas is eager to do so. There’s just one problem: she is totally uninterested in him.Rebecca’s affections belong to Viscount Nicholas Browning. Rumor has it, the strapping Viscount is completely broke, for his father was a terrible spendthrift. With Rebecca set to inherit the Weymouth Townhouse upon her marriage, his interest in her is suspect. Yet the two proclaim their love to one another in secret time and time again.With whom will Rebecca enter into holy matrimony? Who should she trust: an unreliable duke or a mysterious viscount?