No Marriage of Convenience (31 page)

ELIZABETH BOYLE has loved three things all her life: collecting souvenir spoons, finding “aggies” on the beach, and reading any story that included a good romance. Luckily for Elizabeth she has enough wall space to proudly display her ever growing collection of kitschy spoons, lives by Puget Sound so she can indulge in her love of saltwater nearly daily, and writes romance novels full time.

No Marriage of Convenience
is her fourth historical romance and her first for Avon Books. In between searching for new low-fat recipes to test on her unsuspecting husband and chasing after her young son (or as he calls him, “a hero in training”), she continues to write new and exciting romances for Avon Books.

Readers can write Elizabeth Boyle at P.O. Box 47252, Seattle, WA 98146 or visit her website at http://www.elizabethboyle.com.

Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

NO MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
. Copyright 2000 by Elizabeth Boyle. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition September 2006 ISBN 9780061750861

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Australia

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321)

Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com.au

Canada

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

55 Avenue Road, Suite 2900

Toronto, ON, M5R, 3L2, Canada

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.ca

New Zealand

HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Limited

P.O. Box 1

Auckland, New Zealand

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.nz

United Kingdom

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

77-85 Fulham Palace Road

London, W6 8JB, UK

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.uk

United States

HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

10 East 53rd Street

New York, NY 10022

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com