An impoverished companion, an undercover marquis, and an outrageous rulebook that never accounted for love.
Facing winter with an empty purse and three younger siblings to feed, Elizabeth Hotchkiss hardly expected Lady Danbury's library to yield a little red manual on snaring an eligible nobleman. Yet with household funds dwindling to pennies, desperate measures seem her only defense.
Under the guise of an estate manager, James arrived to investigate a threat against his formidable aunt. He certainly did not anticipate that tutoring an outspoken beauty in the art of flirtation would test his own resolve.
When James Sidwell, Marquis of Riverdale, offered to help Elizabeth Hotchkiss find herself a husband, he never dreamed that the only candidate he could propose would be himself..