A Gentleman's Convenient Flaw

He only meant to defend her honour. He didn't mean to lose his heart.

Lord Julian Beaumont has made an art of not caring. He watches the marriage market the way other men watch weather: with detachment, mild contempt, and no intention of getting wet.

Then he crosses a crowded ballroom to silence a man who is being deliberately cruel to a woman he has never met.

Miss Eleanor Marbury has spent three seasons mastering the art of absorbing damage quietly. She does not need rescuing. She does not, in particular, need the most cynical man in London attaching his name to hers in front of half the ton and calling it gallantry.

Their fake engagement is a convenience, and it would work perfectly, if only pretending to care about someone did not require learning who they actually are. As the scandal reveals its teeth, Julian Beaumont, who has always believed love is the fine print no one reads, is about to discover exactly what he is willing to stake on a woman who never asked him to.

A clean Regency romance for readers who love fake engagements and cynical heroes who never saw her coming.