USA Today bestselling author Charis Michaels enchants with her Awakened by a Kiss series, taking our favorite fairy tales' forgotten characters and making them the hero of their own story. Anheiress with a plan.Lady HelenaLark has spent years trying to escape her wedding to the vain and boring Dukeof Lusk. She's evaded, refused, even run away. When her family's patience runsout, they pack her off to London to walk down the aisle.
But Helena has anotheridea: find a more suitable bride to take her place, even if she must look for areplacement duchess every day. Abodyguard with a job to do.Declan Shaw, better known as "The Huntsman, " is a mercenary who can pick and choose hisclientele. After his last job, escorting a young noblewoman to France, landedhim in jail under false accusations, he wants nothing to do with aristocrats orwomen.
But the law isn't done with him, and if he agrees to babysit a duke'serrant fiancé, the payout could make his legal troubles go away. Amost unexpected alliance.When theirworlds collide, Declan realizes that containing his new client is only slightlyharder than keeping his hands off her. Helena senses an ally in her handsomenew bodyguard and solicits his help. Together they must escape the forces thatoppose them and fight for the fairy-tale love they desire.
USA Today bestselling author Charis Michaels enchants with her Awakened by a Kiss series, taking our favorite fairy tales' forgotten characters and making them the hero of their own story. Anheiress with a plan.Lady HelenaLark has spent years trying to escape her wedding to the vain and boring Dukeof Lusk. She's evaded, refused, even run away. When her family's patience runsout, they pack her off to London to walk down the aisle.
But Helena has anotheridea: find a more suitable bride to take her place, even if she must look for areplacement duchess every day. Abodyguard with a job to do.Declan Shaw, better known as "The Huntsman, " is a mercenary who can pick and choose hisclientele. After his last job, escorting a young noblewoman to France, landedhim in jail under false accusations, he wants nothing to do with aristocrats orwomen.
But the law isn't done with him, and if he agrees to babysit a duke'serrant fiancé, the payout could make his legal troubles go away. Amost unexpected alliance.When theirworlds collide, Declan realizes that containing his new client is only slightlyharder than keeping his hands off her. Helena senses an ally in her handsomenew bodyguard and solicits his help. Together they must escape the forces thatoppose them and fight for the fairy-tale love they desire.