title: When a Marquis Chooses a Bride (The Worthingtons)
author:  Ella Quinn 
description: <b>EllaQuinn</b>is the<i>USA Today</i>bestselling author of smart, spicy Regency romances, including The Worthingtons and The Marriage Game Series. Prior to writing romance, EllaQuinnwas an adjunct professor, a lawyer, andthe first woman to be assigned to a Green Beret unit. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and has extensively researched the Regency era, immersing her stories with the flavor and feel of the period so that readers lose themselves in thetime. She and her husband currently live in Germany when they arent cruising the world on their sailboat.Visit her online atellaquinnauthor.com.
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  How to Marry a Marquis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Julia Quinn
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In loving memory:  
    
  Ted Cotler, 1915-1973  
  Rutherford Swatzburg, 1910-1992  
  Betty Goldblatt Swatzburg, 1910-1997  
  Edith Block Cotler, 1917-1998  
  Ernest Anderson, 1911-1998  
    
  I stand upon your shoulders every day of my life.  
    
  And for Paul, even though he seems to think  
  he can get out of just about anything by saying,  
  "You're very cute, though."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Surrey, England August 1815
  
  Four plus six plus eight plus seven plus one plus one plus one, mark down
  eight, carry the two...
  
  Elizabeth Hotchkiss added up the column of numbers for the fourth time, came
  up with the same answer she'd come up with three times before, and groaned.
  
  When she looked up, three somber faces were staring at her—the three faces of
  her younger siblings.
  
  "What is it, Lizzie?" nine-year-old Jane asked.
  
  Elizabeth smiled weakly as she tried to figure out how she was going to put
  away enough money to buy fuel to heat th