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STAND-IN FOR LOVE When Marietta Chase arrived at Twin Oaks, she expected to be greeted by her handsome husband-to-be, Roger Thorning, and introduced to the splendid mansion that would be her new home. Instead Marietta found waiting only Roger's notorious older brother, Christopher, the master of Twin Oaks and the man responsible for turning this great mansion into a gamblers' den and a bachelor's unkempt quarters. Marietta would have fled--but she had nowhere to run. She would have said no to Christopher's inexplicable offer of marriage--if she had not needed a home so badly. Marietta walked down the marriage aisle at the side of a man she did not know but could only fear--and into the heart of a mystery she had to solve to find her way at last to love....