Marjorie Adams

A crumbling estate. A looming scandal. And the devoted Earl who will do anything to claim her.

After two disastrous marriages, Lady Margot Ashbourne has sworn off passion forever, focusing her fierce determination solely on rebuilding her ruined country estate. To her, romance is a messy complication she is too practical and damaged to endure. But when a sudden scandal threatens to destroy her hard-won reputation, her close friend and business collaborator—Percival, Earl of Raventhorn—steps in with a perfectly practical solution: a platonic marriage of convenience.

The problem is, Percy has no intention of settling for a bloodless arrangement. He has been secretly burning for Margot for months, utterly captivated by her sharp wit and her impossible standards. Now, trapped in a marriage that was supposed to be safe and separate, Percy is determined to shatter Margot's defenses. He challenges his reluctant bride to abandon her practical rules, risk her guarded heart, and surrender to a consuming, undeniable desire.

A borrowed dress. A royal ballroom. And a kingdom-wide search for a girl who doesn't actually exist.

Tired of a life of servitude, Ella snuck into the royal ball seeking just one night of freedom and finery. But when she shares an unexpected, world-tilting kiss with the wickedly charming Prince Edward, her simple plan shatters. Fleeing the ballroom and leaving only a single shoe behind, Ella soon finds herself tracked down, brought to the palace, and suddenly celebrated as the kingdom's future princess.

The problem is, Ella has merely traded a cage of poverty for a cage of gold. Surrounded by suffocating royal protocol, she is terrified of Edward discovering the truth. He believes he loves the mysterious, perfect beauty from the dance, but if Ella stops performing and reveals the gritty reality of who she truly is, she risks losing the fairy tale—and the prince—forever.

A shattered leg. Twenty-nine unsent letters. And the fraudulent betrothal contract standing in the way of a nine-year obsession.

Lady Florinda Ashbourne has spent nine years trying to forget the Duke who kissed her in a stable, went to war, and never looked back. Now twenty-six and firmly on the shelf, her quiet life is upended when a catastrophic riding accident leaves her with a broken leg, stranded at the country estate of Frederick Hartwell, the Duke of Carthedge.

The problem is, Frederick is weeks away from marrying another woman to satisfy a ruthless betrothal contract. But as he carries the injured Florinda up and down the fourteen stairs of his estate each day, the carefully constructed numbness he has maintained since the war shatters. To save the only woman he has ever loved, Frederick must uncover the dark secrets—and forged documents—of his future father-in-law before the engagement ball seals his fate forever.