The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turner Series, #1)

by Cat Sebastian

For one ludicrous moment he thought he ought to marry Anne Sutherland. In doing so he would save at least one person from Montbray, and it wasn’t as if she had any other prospects. Marriage to a man with a small but safe income would be better than she could reasonably hope for otherwise. She would have a home and a place in society. Possibly she would even have children, although how he would contrive to make that happen was not something he wanted to dwell on. Oh, what a fool he was. He had nearly convinced himself that it was his charitable duty to marry some spinster—the first one who walked through his door, in fact—just to confer on her all the status and standing and security that he had to offer. Conveniently, he had ignored those things that he couldn’t give to a wife—love, desire, passion. Well, those were things he wasn’t going to have for himself, either, so it was no wonder that he let them slip from his mind. Marriage, indeed.