The Rake's Bride - Dry Bayou Brides, #5

Jean-Luc La Fontaine is tired of sowing his wild oats. So, after a disastrous summer in France, he's back in Dry Bayou, ordering himself a mail-order bride. A new wife will help him forget about the siren with sapphire eyes.Intelligence, wealth, prestige. It means nothing when you fall in love with the wrong man. So, when scandal chases Isabeau Montefret from France, she runs to America, determined to forget the man with the wicked smile.
Isabeau hoped becoming a mail-order bride was the answer to her problems. She'd change her name, start a new life, and lose herself in a small town. When she discovers that the man who disappeared with her heart is the man she agreed to marry, Isabeau settles in for the fight of her life. When the one woman he'd left France to forget arrives in town, claiming she's his new bride, Jean-Luc doesn't know what to feel.
But when pain gives way to the truth, he must risk keeping a dark secret, one that would steal every chance at happiness. Isabeau once made him believe in happily ever after, now he must learn how to keep his new bride at a distance, lest he lose everything. Can Jean-Luc be a true husband to the woman he's been deceiving? Can Isabeau convince Jean-Luc she's his one true love? Will these two rediscover what they had once upon a summertime?