family first--duty vs love!
How to Marry a Marquess (Wedded by Scandal #3) by Stacy Reid A young man, Lord Richard Maitland, deceived by his lover, withdraws emotionally and physically from society His one source of light becomes his best friend's sister Lady Evie Chesterfield whom he has had a series of interesting meetings with over the years, seemingly always in the garden, often involving advice as to how to ward off unwanted suitors. For Evie, Richard becomes not only a friend but the man who holds her heart, but she can never let him know. Years later, uncovering an awful truth Richard, now the Marquess of Westfall, outrages society by claiming his illegitimate daughter openly and adopting several desperate children. In fact, " it had become a scandal that Richard publicly supported reforms of the injustice meted out to women and children in Newgate P...