Christine Merrill 
Miss Winthorpe’s Elopement [EPUB ebook] 

A bluestocking heiress forced to find a husband and a rake on the edge of ruin tie the knot in this Regency romance.Shy heiress Miss Penelope Winthorpe was only trying to escape her bullying brother. She never meant to wed a noble lord over a blacksmith’s anvil!Adam Felkirk, Duke of Bellston, had no intention of taking a wife. But then Penelope’s plight moved him. Now the notorious rake has a new aim-to shock and seduce his prim and proper bride.But the gorgeous duke will be taught a lesson of his own as scholarly Miss Winthorpe becomes his seductive duchess!