Sold into Marriage

About the Book

Lord Sebastian Griffiths would do anything for his beloved dying mother. But he didn’t see this one coming: to see him married before she died. Sebastian, a 38-year-old confirmed bachelor, liked things done his way and his way only. Sebastian considered a wife to be an embarrassing, time-consuming, meddling and unnecessary addition to his life. After consulting with Dennis Burrows, a solicitor and good friend from university, he forms a plan to buy a temporary wife that could be paid off when his mother died. Isabel couldn’t believe her own father could sell her into marriage. After spending nine years in debtors’ prison looking after him, Isabel had become a strong, independent woman. It was that or fall apart and die from hunger. But Isabel wasn’t ready for Sebastian. He was an attractive, arrogant, dangerous pig, yet she’d gone ahead with the marriage, for the love of her father, and the chance to get him out of the hellhole they had been living in for the last nine years. Sebastian is caught unawares by the passion he experiences with Isabel. After his mother dies, and he leaves Isabel for the second time, he realises he’s truly fallen in love with his own wife. Miserable and drowning his sorrows, he is rescued by Burrows, who knows his friend has to pull himself together for the sake of his unborn child, something Sebastian has yet to discover. Will Sebastian be able to find the courage to go back to Isabel and win her heart, or will she turn him out like the rat he’s been?

About the Author

My name is Maxi Shelton; I live in Surrey, England, surrounded by green countryside and hills, with my wonderful husband, two children and dog. My dog is my writing buddy who sits at my feet, although she has been known to tell me off if I get up to make a cup of tea too often! She also encourages long walks to develop ideas and story lines. I’m a full-time author and housewife, with an FdA in Interior Design. Writing novels has been a secret dream of mine for as far back as I can remember. I’ve always loved reading and writing, along with history, culture and life! I’m one of those people who love to watch the world go by and imagine what people’s stories are!