THE ENCHANTING EVIL
Too beautiful and too enchanting not to attract the young man her cousin Charlotte hoped to marry. . . Melinda felt only withering hatred from the family that had taken her in. Penniless and therefore of no consequence, she would be married off to the highest bidder. . . a lecherous old friend of her uncle's. After a brutal beating, she had no choice but to flee. . . to the callousness and terrors of Victorian London. . . and into the clutches of a seemingly kindly woman who offered her lodgings for the night. Drugged and locked in, she then receives a fantastic offer of five hundred guineas to pretend to marry the notorious Marquis of Chard. CONDITION NOTE: PUBLISHING DATA PAGE MISSING