To Bind A Scarred Viscount: Regency Marriage Bargain and Contract Courtship

Marcus Rexton, Viscount Hartwell, needs money. Clara Whitcombe needs respect. Society assumes a title will buy one and a fortune will secure the other. They are both wrong. With Hartwell estate crumbling under debt, Marcus offers Clara the most practical arrangement in London: court her, marry her, save the house. Clara refuses to be purchased. If a viscount wants her fortune, he can sign for something far more dangerous-her authority. Their bargain begins in ledgers and negotiation, then slips into something neither of them planned: admiration, desire, and a partnership sharp enough to unsettle every room they enter. But while London watches the courtship, someone inside Hartwell's orbit begins quietly tightening the noose through altered accounts, strategic rumor, and sabotage designed to ruin Marcus before the wedding can save him. A scarred viscount. A brilliant heiress. A courtship contract that was supposed to stay business-only.