(Paperback)

For years Lady Astrid Derring has survived with a skeleton staff, borrowed gowns and cucumber sandwiches gobbled up at the galas she attends. Never having lived down the scandal of her husband abandoning her to avoid prosecution for his crimes, she has endured wagging tongues and indecent propositions from noblemen who deem her ripe for plucking.

(Paperback)

Sister to a duke, the impoverished bride Lady Portia Derring reluctantly travels to Yorkshire to meet the wealthy earl her family insists she wed. Meeting him is as far as she will go. Refusing to be a sacrificial lamb to satisfy her brother's debts, this determined lady will do everything in her power not to gain a proposal.