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Fervor fills Olivia Jones when she attends her first suffrage meeting. But that’s nothing compared to the unanticipated feelings that flood her whenever newsman, Hunter Rockland, comes near. For years she has avoided anything other than polite discourse, hiding behind a thin veil of dislike. Suddenly, desire she doesn’t understand threatens to upset her firm impression of Hunter. She believes him to be just like her father-a man who thinks women have no rights except to marry, have children, and obey their husbands.

Olivia is shocked and furious when Hunter tells her that her father plans to marry her to Senator Nathan Henderson. It’s bad enough that women have no say in who runs the country, has she also no vote in her own future?

It stuns Hunter Rockland to his roots when suffragette Olivia Jones informs him that she sees him as a younger version of her father. So when Senator Hathaway Jones asks for Hunter’s help in getting Olivia to marry a colleague, Hunter sees a way to disprove Olivia’s opinion of him and save her from a marriage she doesn’t want. Of course, he does so for her sake, not his. He has no interest in marrying. But if he did … if he did, Miss Olivia Jones is exactly the woman he would choose. And if he wanted a dalliance for a night? Well, he’d choose Olivia for that, too. Thoughts of her occupy his mind and images of her fuel his fantasies. He knows a lady like Olivia doesn’t come to a man’s bed without the promise of love and a ring, so she won’t be his. But Hunter can’t see shackling her to a man like Henderson. What else can he do but
help?

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