As soon as Dorothy Elbury learned to read she was continually reprimanded for "always having her nose in a book". Years later Dorothy still spent all her free time reading until, one day, finding herself with nothing to read and time hanging heavy on her hands, she started to scribble the first paragraphs of what would eventually become her first of many Mills & Boon romance novels. Dorothy currently lives in Lincolnshire, England, with her husband of over fifty years.

An engagment of convenience
When Robert, Viscount Sandford, agrees to take Harriet Cordell as his betrothed it is purely an act of convenience-and most definitely short-term! Escaping an undesirable forced marriage, she simply needs a temporary refuge.
But then dramatic events at his estate, including Harriet's sudden kidnapping, force Robert to admit that their hasty betrothal might need to become a much more permanent arrangement....