[St. John 01] • The Wild Belle

Andrea Craycraft was the

carefree, spirited middle child of a Beaufort, South Carolina

plantation owner. She was quite happy with her life until her father

signed a marriage contract for her to marry their neighbor’s nephew, the

Earl of Rydover. Determined to ruin this union before it even began,

she decided to make herself as unappealing as possible to the Earl.

Dressed as a boy, she spied a man swimming in a lake. Thinking it was

her betrothed, she approached him and boldly stated that she wanted to

see him naked. To her dismay, the stranger was not who she thought, but

the man her father was meeting with to transport cotton to England! Michael

St. John was a very successful man. He traveled the world for his

family’s company convincing people to use them to transport their

products all over the globe. He would do whatever it took to get the

contracts signed. However, the one contract he vowed to never have his

signature on was a marriage contract. He was a confirmed bachelor and

planned on keeping it that way. But his bachelor days came to an abrupt

end when he was caught in a compromising position with the plantation

owner’s daughter. Despite the forced union, will Michael fall for the

southern beauty and find himself allowing his heart to belong to The

Wild Belle?