One Night of Scandal / Teresa Medeiros 370 p.

One Night of Scandal / Teresa Medeiros 370 p.
When adventurous Carlotta Anne Fairleigh peeks into the neighbor's window on the night of her debut, she finds herself drawn into house.  When she is discovered kissing Hayden St. Clair, she is, in quick succession, compromised, betrothed, and married to the neighbor, nicknamed the Murderous Marquess.  All it took was one night and The Hertfordshire Hellion's life is change forever.  She finally unable to talk herself out of this fix.  Soon she is in Hayden's haunted home, (the ghost of his late wife still visits), burdened with a bratty stepdaughter, and not in the arms of her husband.  Lottie is spirited enough to take on the challenges of her stepdaughter, the ghost, and her social outcast husband.