title: Stealing the Bride (Avon Romantic Treasure)
author:  Elizabeth Boyle 
description: Lady Diana Fordham spent 10 years waiting for the marquis of Templeton ("Temple") to express an interest in her. Now in an attempt to get him to finally drop the fashionable, foppish charade he has presented to society for years and become the hero she knows he truly is, Diana allows herself to be abducted by the notorious Viscount Cordell. Both personal and professional reasons send Temple in pursuit of Diana, who has also become the target of several penniless noblemen with hopes of catching the spinster heiress themselves. With orders to steal the bride to-be and see that she is wed for her own safety to any suitable man, Temple never expected he would wind up wanting to marry the exasperating yet all too tempting Diana himself! Humor and passion were never more expertly entwined. Boyle cleverly matches up a tart-tongued, brilliantly resourceful heroine with an honorable, sinfully seductive hero, and then deftly sifts a dash of dangerous intrigue, wonderfully unique secondary characters, and a generous measure of wicked wit into this sweetly romantic, deliciously sensual love story. <i>John Charles</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: ELIZABETH BOYLE
  
  Stealing the Bride
  To my ever delightful and loving aunt, 
  Darlene Green. 
  Thank you for your endless kindness and generosity. 
  You live in my heart as your spirit 
  will live always in these pages.
  
  Contents
  PROLOGUE
  The Fates have a funny way of changing one’s life…
  ONE
  It was, by all accounts, a rather typical night at…
  TWO
  The fate of Lady Diana Fordham was hardly as dire…
  THREE
  They passed through three small villages before they came to…
  FOUR
  Temple remained outside the inn, still in a daze from…
  FIVE
  By the time Temple landed beside her, Diana was ready…
  SIX
  They arrived in the bustling town of Nottingham late in…
  SEVEN
  “Excuse me?” Temple sputtered.
  EIGHT
  “Killed Cordell?” Temple shook his head. “I did no such…
  NINE
  “According to Mr. Billingsworth, the waters of Buxton have been providing…
  TEN
  Slowly he turned his head, glancing over his shoulder at…
  ELEVEN
  The warm light of morning brought answers that the dark…
  TWELVE
  “I know you love her,” Colin said, meeting