Lady Francesca, illegitimate daughter of a duke, is taller
than most men, better educated, and heiress to a vast
fortune. She is one-and-thirty when her father insists she
go to London for the Season and return home a married woman.
Galen Pender, Viscount Clayburn, notorious rake, has
rebelled against his autocratic father since childhood. Now
the earl has selected a bride for his heir, and Clayburn
must wed the unnamed Albatross or face financial disaster.
Instead, he resolves to thwart his father by wedding a
socially unacceptable woman. Snowbound at a coach-house inn,
he meets and tries to seduce a beautiful sharp-tongued woman
who would never pass muster with his father.
What he doesn’t know—and Francesca does know—she is
the bride his father has chosen for him.