Liz Tyner 
It’s Marriage or Ruin 

A spinster artist desperate to avoid marriage finds herself forced to marry a rakish lord in this witty historical romance.Miss Emilie Catesby lives to paint, but when her mother threatens to take her oils away if she doesn’t marry, she must either recklessly ruin herself, or marry jaded Lord Marcus. And when she finds herself compromised into a marriage of convenience with Marcus, her decision is made for her! However, she’s now surprised to discover her wifely duties hold much more appeal than her paints . . ."What I love about Ms. Tyner’s work [is that] she takes what is a very basic trope and storyline and gives it a twist and it ends up being fresh and new." -Chicks, Rogues and Scandals on To Win a Wallflower