Description
You’ll have to fight for him. Her mother’s words have echoed through her since their conversation this morning. She will fight. With every weapon she has. She loves him. She knows it. She wants him. And she wants him to want her. Maxim Trevelyan, the reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has followed the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. He’s fought for her and won her, and now he must marry her at gunpoint. But can a former debauchee like Maxim be a good husband, or will his reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy their newfound happiness? Alessia Demachi has outwitted kidnappers and traffickers and won the heart of the man she loves, but will she be able to make this marriage work? Faced with Maxim's dark past, her strict family and the stares and whispers of London's elite, can she rise from housekeeper to Countess? From the majestic mountains of Albania to the dark glamour of contemporary London and the rural idyll of the English countryside, The Missus is a spellbinding journey of love, desire, acceptance and redemption.