A Reluctant Betrothal (The Grantham Girls)
by Amanda Weaver
A Reluctant Betrothal By Amanda Weaver When Grace Godwyn is introduced to
her soon-to-be fiancé’s closest friend, she can hardly keep from fainting. The man whose
angry gaze confronts her is none other than the handsome stranger who came to her aid in
a dark French alleyway. The stranger with whom she’d shared a moment of reckless
passion. And now, with a single word, he could destroy her one chance for security.
Julian St. John, Lord Knighton, owes his friend too much to allow him to fall into the
clutches of a craven fortune hunter. He knows all he needs to know of Grace Godwyn: that
she’s the orphaned and penniless daughter of a disgraced viscount; that her lips taste
incomparably sweet. There is no way he is going to allow this marriage to take place.
Yet the more time Julian and Grace are forced to spend in each other’s company, the more
irresistible their desire grows—and the more devastating the potential
consequ
her soon-to-be fiancé’s closest friend, she can hardly keep from fainting. The man whose
angry gaze confronts her is none other than the handsome stranger who came to her aid in
a dark French alleyway. The stranger with whom she’d shared a moment of reckless
passion. And now, with a single word, he could destroy her one chance for security.
Julian St. John, Lord Knighton, owes his friend too much to allow him to fall into the
clutches of a craven fortune hunter. He knows all he needs to know of Grace Godwyn: that
she’s the orphaned and penniless daughter of a disgraced viscount; that her lips taste
incomparably sweet. There is no way he is going to allow this marriage to take place.
Yet the more time Julian and Grace are forced to spend in each other’s company, the more
irresistible their desire grows—and the more devastating the potential
consequ