She needs a husband. He needs a wife. Neither expects to fall in love before Twelfth Night.
With her family's fortune in ruins and her chance at a respectable match slipping away, Lady Phoebe has only one option left: accept a convenient marriage proposal to a man she hasn't seen in years.
Frederick Yardley, Viscount Weymouth, has troubles of his own. Unless he picks a bride before the end of Christmastide, his father will pick one for him. And Freddie can't allow that. A practical arrangement with a young woman he remembers from years past seems, if not the perfect solution, at least a solution he can live with. It satisfies everyone without entangling either of their hearts.
Their first test as man and wife finds them at Freddie's Aunt's lively Yorkshire Christmas house party, where snow-covered adventures, holiday traditions, matchmaking relatives, and far too many opportunities lead them to discover that the stranger they married is far different from the person they once knew.
When a shocking accusation threatens to unravel their marriage before it has truly begun, Freddie and Phoebe must decide whether the vows they exchanged were merely a matter of convenience or the beginning of a love worth risking everything to keep.
Genre: Historical Romance
With her family's fortune in ruins and her chance at a respectable match slipping away, Lady Phoebe has only one option left: accept a convenient marriage proposal to a man she hasn't seen in years.
Frederick Yardley, Viscount Weymouth, has troubles of his own. Unless he picks a bride before the end of Christmastide, his father will pick one for him. And Freddie can't allow that. A practical arrangement with a young woman he remembers from years past seems, if not the perfect solution, at least a solution he can live with. It satisfies everyone without entangling either of their hearts.
Their first test as man and wife finds them at Freddie's Aunt's lively Yorkshire Christmas house party, where snow-covered adventures, holiday traditions, matchmaking relatives, and far too many opportunities lead them to discover that the stranger they married is far different from the person they once knew.
When a shocking accusation threatens to unravel their marriage before it has truly begun, Freddie and Phoebe must decide whether the vows they exchanged were merely a matter of convenience or the beginning of a love worth risking everything to keep.
Genre: Historical Romance