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For those who love The Gilded Age and Kiss Me Kate…
American heiress Theodora ‘Thea’ Preston crosses the Atlantic with one purpose: protect her younger sister from fortune hunters while Beatrice secures a suitable English husband. Thea has no intention of surrendering her own freedom. She plans to return home and claim the place denied her at Preston Rail and Iron Works, until their mother announces one unbreakable rule: Beatrice cannot marry until her elder sister does.
Enter Nathaniel, Earl of Wessex, who is hopelessly in love with Beatrice—and his closest friend, Sebastian Harcourt, Viscount Graham. Sebastian needs an heiress’s fortune, possesses more confidence than caution, and has never met a woman he could not charm. The plan is simple: if he can persuade sharp-tongued, stubborn Thea to marry him, Wessex will be free to court Beatrice.
But Thea refuses to be managed, and Sebastian is far too proud to admit he may have met his match. Their bargain becomes a battle of wits waged through London ballrooms and a country-house charity production of The Taming of the Shrew, where every staged quarrel lands perilously close to the truth. Between rehearsed kisses and very real arguments, Sebastian glimpses the woman behind Thea’s defenses—and Thea begins to wonder whether the infuriating viscount might be the first man who wants neither to silence nor tame her.
But when Thea discovers their courtship began as a scheme, Sebastian must risk his pride, his future, and the estate he hoped her fortune would save to prove she was never a problem to be conquered—and that the only heart he ever needed to master was his own.
Genre: Inspirational
American heiress Theodora ‘Thea’ Preston crosses the Atlantic with one purpose: protect her younger sister from fortune hunters while Beatrice secures a suitable English husband. Thea has no intention of surrendering her own freedom. She plans to return home and claim the place denied her at Preston Rail and Iron Works, until their mother announces one unbreakable rule: Beatrice cannot marry until her elder sister does.
Enter Nathaniel, Earl of Wessex, who is hopelessly in love with Beatrice—and his closest friend, Sebastian Harcourt, Viscount Graham. Sebastian needs an heiress’s fortune, possesses more confidence than caution, and has never met a woman he could not charm. The plan is simple: if he can persuade sharp-tongued, stubborn Thea to marry him, Wessex will be free to court Beatrice.
But Thea refuses to be managed, and Sebastian is far too proud to admit he may have met his match. Their bargain becomes a battle of wits waged through London ballrooms and a country-house charity production of The Taming of the Shrew, where every staged quarrel lands perilously close to the truth. Between rehearsed kisses and very real arguments, Sebastian glimpses the woman behind Thea’s defenses—and Thea begins to wonder whether the infuriating viscount might be the first man who wants neither to silence nor tame her.
But when Thea discovers their courtship began as a scheme, Sebastian must risk his pride, his future, and the estate he hoped her fortune would save to prove she was never a problem to be conquered—and that the only heart he ever needed to master was his own.
Genre: Inspirational
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