Lady Henrietta Sinclair has no intention of marrying-ever. Unfortunately, her father has very much other intentions...specifically involving his oldest friend, the deeply proper and deeply persistent Lord Daniel Fitzwilliam.
Henrietta is prepared to endure a season of dodging proposals, feigning illness, and possibly faking her own disappearance-until she meets Victor Churchill, the charming and entirely unsuitable Earl of Norfolk. He is everything Lord Fitzwilliam is not: warm, witty, and dangerously easy to fall for.
For the first time, marriage doesn't seem like a life sentence.
But there is one small complication.
Her father has already struck a bargain.
And Lord Fitzwilliam does not lose what he believes is his.
As Henrietta and Victor are drawn into stolen dances, scandalous conversations, and increasingly desperate attempts to outmaneuver a man who refuses to be denied, she must decide how far she is willing to go for love-especially when defying her father could cost her everything.
Including the man she's just begun to love.