My Wicked Marquess

Author: Gaelen Foley
Stars: 3
Review by: BookLover
This is part of the Inferno Club Series.  They are excellent reads.  I want more.

Max, Marquess of Rothustone, falls for Daphane, a woman he saved from thugs outside the orphanage she started in a bad part of town with brothels, gaming halls, and thug gangs.  He asks her father for her hand in marriage.  He accepts, but Daphane is angry because she had no say in the matter.  She is very attracted to Max, but she feels he has walls up, and she cannot share a life with him until he takes down these protective walls. She runs away from him.  Max finds her and tells her how worried her family is and that he will give up chasing her now.  He admits he has never been loved.  Daphane confesses that she loves him, and they get married.  Max sets up the orphanage in a new area, names it after her mother, cleans it up, and arranges for new clothes and shoes for the children. But then she discovers he is keeping secrets from her, and trouble brews, until he explains all.  Daphane sees Max in a new light as a great hero.