Decieving the Heart

Wiping the tears with his thumb, he softly cupped my face to meet his . "Baby will you marry me." he whispered to me as he held on to my body so I could cry into his chest.

I pulled away from him, my sight blurry and I couldn't stop hiccupping. I didn't even know there was a third party until I heard that distinctive voice.

"You can't propose to a married woman."

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Penelope Clay overheard something that wasn't in her plans. She was to marry into the Rodger family, in her mind, it meant to the ageing Mr Henry Rodger a long time friend of her father or risk completely losing the family company that her father just gambled away.

What she didn't count on while running around London trying to stop this catastrophe and save her current relationship was that her alias, the blonde haired nightingale, would string along a man who wants more than she can offer. Feeling like her days are numbered, she had given up hope on the idea of ever escaping Henry until an unknown truth comes out..

He has a son, an illegitimate son but a son non the less.

One who's easy on the eyes but from the onset he detests her. He knows very well who her boyfriend is and isn't impressed by her, but he needs a wife for some ridiculous clause placed by his step mother. It's all business until it's not.

Penelope determined to overcome this obstacle believing the marriage would be easier since they don't get along, defies all odds to keep seeing her boyfriend turned lover but as the marriage draws to an end, she finds herself falling for the brooding heir and wishing this farce would never end.

This book is COMPLETE