The Wedding Pact

Miss Ophelia Crowe has lived a life where everything has been managed for her. From what she could wear to what activities she could do, each and every day has been carefully structured for her. Her parents had been wealthy, but they had died early in her life, leaving her in the care of a guardian she’s never met. On her 21st birthday, her guardian comes to pay her a visit. The kind benefactor she had expected turns out to be anything but how she’d imagined, and he insists on marrying her, she runs away from the only home she’s ever known. Vicar Julian Roskin has led a quiet life. Still young and inexperienced, he is content to manage a small parish. Then, late one night, his safe and predictable world is turned upside down when a beautiful young lady ends up on his doorstep in need of his protection. Protection, in this case, will require him to marry her. Reason tells him not to do it, but her sweet and gentle spirit prompt him to agree to take her as his wife. What he doesn’t realize is that the very thing that compelled her to seek his protection is the very thing that could kill him.