Born for This: A Match the Marquess: 3

He was sent to collect a bride. He found a woman who refused to be collected.For ten years, Thomas, Marquess of Worthington, has perfected the art of rebellion. Governed by a father whose cruelty wears the mask of expectation, he has answered with a reputation for vice, charm, and a studied indifference to consequence.Then the duke delivers his final provocation: a betrothal arranged sixteen years ago, to a girl Thomas has never met. Left with no choice, he travels to the sun-drenched coast of France to fetch his future bride.What he finds is Cassandra.Half-English, wholly French, and not the least inclined to be fetched anywhere. For more than a year she has been mistress of her grandfather's villa, beholden to no one-and she will not be managed by a guardian duke, nor by the arrogant marquess who arrives expecting her obedience.Neither of them chose this arrangement. Neither will be the first to yield. Yet beneath the sparring and the wounded pride, each has badly misjudged the other-and what begins as open defiance slowly, perilously, becomes something neither can command.This arranged marriage Regency romance brings together a reformed rake and a strong heroine who believe they loathe one another-a forced-proximity courtship of sharp wit and slow-burning tension, sensual and yearning without ever losing its elegance.Born For This is the third novel in the Born For series-sweeping historical romance brimming with willfulness, misunderstanding, and hard-won love