by Tessa Dare
First published 2017
Piers, the Marquis de Granville, works as a secret agent for the Crown. During a society ball, he searches through his host's private library when Charlotte Highwood finds him there. She warns him about her scheming mother, who desperately wants to marry her off and plans to set a trap for them both. Fate intervenes when someone discovers them alone together, forcing an immediate engagement between the unlikely pair. Charlotte feels horrified by this arranged situation and searches frantically for an escape route. Piers finds himself charmed by her clumsy honesty and increasingly drawn to her innocent appeal. As their forced courtship continues, his carefully constructed emotional barriers begin crumbling one by one.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, historical-romance, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity
Setting: Crown, Society Ball
Period: 19th-Century
374 pages · Mass Market Paperback · J'ai Lu