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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  Long-Lost Bride
  
  
  By:
  
  
  Day Leclaire
  
  
  _**Prologue**_
  
  
  _The Beaumonts – Forever, Nevada_
  
  
  Ella Beaumont rolled onto her hip and stared at her husband. A full moon made
  that job
  
  
  a little easier. Burnishing the room in silver and painting a swath of gentle
  ivory across
  
  
  Rafe’s hard-chiseled features. “Are you sure we’re doing the right thing,
  Rafe? Maybe we
  
  
  shouldn’t interfere.”
  
  
  “My interference is what put my sister in this situation to begin with. I
  stayed out of it for the past nine years, hoping against hope that Shayne
  would find someone. But there’s
  
  
  never been anyone else for her. Not one single man who’s captured her heart.”
  
  
  “Except McIntyre,” Ella said softly.
  
  
  Rafe nodded. “Except McIntyre.”
  
  
  “How do you know he’s not married? How do you know he’ll come?”
  
  
  “I’ve made it my business to keep a watchful eye on him since I had their
  marriage
  
  
  annulled.”
  
  
  She took a moment to absorb that before very gently informing her husband, “as
  much
  
  
  as yo