The Exhibition's Forbidden Affair

Can a marriage built on ambition survive when desire rewrites the contract? Jo >"A business arrangement," Lord William Blackwood called it. My invention for his protection. My genius for his failing mills. >Now bullets have been fired, blood has been spilled, and I've discovered the most dangerous invention of all-the feelings I never meant to have for a husband I never meant to want. William >I didn't account for Josephine Washington-her brilliant mind, her unflinching courage, her body that haunts my dreams. She was meant to be a partner on paper, not the woman who dismantles every wall I've built around my heart. "I'm yours," she whispered in the midnight shadows of the Crystal Palace, and God help me, I wanted it to be true. >Some arrangements cannot be contained by contracts and convenience. Some desires rewrite everything you thought you knew about yourself. And some women are worth risking everything to love.