by Diana Hamilton
Cleo is Jude’s efficient, financially savvy assistant. But she wants to be his wife, so she can inherit her fortune. She puts her proposal to Jude in terms he can understand: mutual financial benefit. He agrees, so long as she accepts a real marriage. Cleo never allowed herself to consider Jude ...
This romance is really only mildly old skool; there's a bit of "forced seduction" but nothing really egregious or upsetting by romance standards. Cleo proposes a convenient marriage to her boss, in order to get her inheritance and pay off a blackmailer, then falls in love with him. Unfortunately, he...