An Alliance is the only way to make it through this House Party!
She wants freedom. He wants peace. Neither expects a pretend courtship to feel quite so real…
Lady Olivia is done with fortune hunters and suffocating expectations. Her dream is to travel the Continent. Her brother has promised her the opportunity, if she will endure one final house party, where she must make an effort to find love. A fortnight of dances and activities under the watchful eye of her chaperone is the only thing standing in the way of achieving her desire.
Edward, the Earl of Cheshire, has little patience for society’s matchmaking games. When his brother conveniently disappears and leaves him to face a house full of hopeful young ladies, Edward hatches a clever solution: a pretend courtship with the one woman who has no intention of falling in love.
Their arrangement is simple—appear besotted to escape meddlesome hosts. But the act soon becomes more than convenient as shared glances turn tender, and rehearsed flirtations begin to stir something genuine.
