A Bachelor Husband

When Marie Chester falls from a loft and breaks her arm, Christopher confesses he pushed her. She bursts into tears—not for the pain, but because he is angry with her.

In early twentieth-century England, Marie grows up in her father’s country home beside Christopher, the orphan he adopts as her brother. His teasing and commands only deepen her devotion; as he leaves for school and university, she waits for scraps of his attention while he builds a life crowded with friends. Then her father dies, and Christopher meets her at the station, seeing the girl he remembers—not the young woman whose heart has long belonged to him. With Marie’s future suddenly uncertain and Christopher still keeping her at a distance, can she make him see her differently?

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