title: The Wedding Arrangement
author: Lucy Gordon
description: Lucy Gordon cut her writing teeth on magazine journalism, interviewing many of the world's most interesting men, including Warren Beatty and Roger Moore. Several years ago, while staying Venice, she met a Venetian who proposed in two days. They have been married ever since. Naturally this has affected her writing, where romantic Italian men tend to feature strongly. Two of her books have won a Romance Writers of America RITA Award. You can visit her website at www.lucy-gordon.com.
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  A Marriage of Inconvenience  
  By Susanna Fraser
  
  
  Lucy Jones is a nobody. As an orphan she was reluctantly taken in by her
  wealthy relatives, the Arringtons, on the condition that she be silent and
  obedient, always. When her lifelong infatuation with her cousin Sebastian is
  rewarded by a proposal of marriage, she’s happy and grateful, even though the
  family finds excuses to keep the engagement a secret.
  
  
  James Wright-Gordon has always had the benefits of money and a high station in
  society, but he is no snob. He’s very close to his sister, Anna, who quickly
  falls for the dashing Sebastian when the families are brought together at a
  wedding party. Meanwhile, James is struck by Lucy’s quiet intelligence, and
  drawn to her despite their different circumstances in life.
  
  
  Lucy suspects that Sebastian has fallen for Anna, but before she can set him
  free, a terrible secret is revealed that shakes both families. Will James come
  to her rescue—or abandon 