A Perilous Attraction

It was really a marriage of inconvenience. Fiery Catherine Maury found it exceedingly inconvenient for her trustee to have lost her entire fortune just before she gained control of it. She found it inconvenient to be obliged to consider marriage at all, but the most serious inconvenience lay in the fact that the offer which promised her salvation came from the icy Earl of Caldbeck. His lordship, on the other hand, did not find the situation inconvenient whatsoever. It provided him just the opportunity he had been waiting for to make the beautiful Catherine's fire his own. What neither of them realized was, as they learned to tread the treacherous path of marriage to a stranger, that they would be obliged to deal with a murderous mind so depraved that it defied imagination. What happens when Fire meets Ice?