The Earl's Childhood Nemesis

Alice Fairfax travels to London for her first Season with a practical list of husbands and one urgent purpose: to save her family's ancestral home.

She is prepared for fashionable gowns and awkward dancing, yet nothing readies her for Anthony Worthing, her brother's handsome best friend and the infuriating earl who has plagued her since childhood.

He now insists on protecting her through every introduction, and the more prospects he drives away, the harder it becomes to want anyone else.

Behind his rakish reputation Alice finds a man she scarcely understands, one who has loved her for three years yet cannot offer the uncomplicated future she deserves because of a family duty he keeps hidden.

Helping her marry another gentleman should be the honourable course, until a stolen kiss makes that choice feel impossible.