Brentwood's Ward by Michelle Griep is her standalone f/m Regency historical romance, featuring a contest of wills between an arrogant young beauty determined to snag a husband from the marriage market, and the reluctant guardian (who, according to the editorial reviews, gives a portrait of the first attempts at a police force in London, if that's a point of especial interest) who's only in it for the money her father will pay for looking after her while she does, free courtesy of Christian publisher Barbour's Shiloh Run Press imprint.
Currently free @
B&N,
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK) &
Kobo (not available to Canadians). Price-drop-check linkage for
ChristianBook (DRM-free ePub available to select countries, if they cycle around to a phase where they let you download the freebies again instead of reading them online or in their app), where these usually also show up. May also be free at Google Play for the US.
Description
Place an unpolished lawman named Nicholas Brentwood as guardian over a spoiled, pompous beauty named Emily Payne and what do you get? More trouble than Brentwood bargains for. She is determined to find a husband this season. He just wants the large fee her father will pay him to help his ailing sister. After a series of dire mishaps, both their desires are thwarted, but each discovers that no matter what, God is in charge.