title: The Marcolini Blackmail Marriage
author:  Melanie Milburne 
description: Melanie Milburne read her first Harlequin at age seventeen in between studying for her final exams. After completing a Masters Degree in Education she decided to write a novel and thus her career as a romance author was born. Melanie is an ambassador for the Australian Childhood Foundation and is a keen dog lover and trainer and enjoys long walks in the Tasmanian bush. In 2015 Melanie won the HOLT Medallion, a prestigous award honouring outstanding literary talent.
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  Over the years, Melanie Merton has used every trick and ruse to repel
  overeager gentlemen callers without ever revealing the real reason she won’t
  say yes to an offer of marriage. When neighbor Walter George jumps to her
  defense against slurs cast by suitor number twelve, he also pries into her
  past—uncovering the circumstances around a tragic loss in her childhood and
  her aversion to being touched by anyone. But even protective Walter must be
  kept at a distance for his own good, because despite a growing attraction
  between them, Melanie must deny him too.
  
  Unlike other men his age in Brighton, Walter George hadn’t considered Melanie
  Merton for a wife because he was convinced he’d never have a chance to impress
  his haughty neighbor. But that was before he understood her better, before he
  uncovered why she kept friends and suitors alike at bay. The right husband
  could restore the woman he sees into some semblance of the fun-loving child of
  his memory, but would Walter 