THE BRIDE TAKES A GROOM

Lisa Berne's Penhallow Dynasty continues with a pair of star-crossed childhood friends who meet again years laterand find love where they least expect it...

Katherine Brooke may be a fabulously wealthy heiress, but she's trapped, a pawn in her parents' ruthless game to marry her into the nobility. Then Captain Hugo Penhallow - so charming, as handsome as a Greek god - comes into her life once more, and suddenly she sees a chance to be free.

As a Penhallow, his is one of the highest names in the land, but still his family is facing ruin. So Katherine boldly proposes an exchange: his name for her money. But only if Hugo understands it's merely a practical arrangement, and that she's not surrendering herself entirely.

Back from eight years in America and determined to give his younger siblings a better life, Hugo agrees. He's never fallen in love, so why not? Yet neither of them guesses that this marriage will become far, far more than they ever dreamed of...

Lisa Berne read her first Georgette Heyer novel at fourteen - it was the effervescent Lady of Quality - and was instantly captivated. Later, she was a graduate student, a grant writer, and a teacher - and now writes historical romance for Avon Books, with her stories set mostly in Regency-era Britain. She lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.