Used Book – Everly's Woman, Kathleen O'Brien, Christine Mazaud

Susannah shivered. "Only five more minutes," she thought, a sense of oppression weighing her down. Five minutes to compose herself. Then, she would be forced to join the man she had just married, against her will, in his bed. For Trent Maxwell had been unyielding: he would agree, as she pleaded with him, to be her husband for one year – so she could save her inheritance, the Everly estate, from bankruptcy. However, he had one condition: he was no saint; he wanted a year of marriage, not a year of chastity. Revolted but cornered, Susannah had conceded. And now, the time had come for her to keep her promise... hoping Trent would keep his.