Chase My Lucky Girl, Kiss My Curse Away

Harper Allen is married to Spencer Lauren, who runs the family company and will not touch her. There is a curse on the Lauren line, that any woman who bears a Lauren heir dies of it, and Spencer has taken it seriously his whole life. The match was made by his grandfather, who had been putting money on the table in the city for anyone who could get him a great-grandchild. Harper had come in from Prosperity Village. The women there are built so that one pregnancy brings several children at once, and the village has far more mouths than it can feed, so the villagers picked Harper to go and earn for all of them. That was the errand she was on when the old man found her. Spencer keeps refusing. Harper has plenty of strength and no shortage of methods, and on the wedding night she ties him up and hauls him into the bridal chamber.