Girl-Bachelor Chronicles – serie

She thought she was the luckiest woman in London ...Surviving on a seamstress' income and a steady stream of fantasies, Prudence Bosworth has always longed for love and romance. Then she inherits a fortune from the father she's never seen, with the stipulation that she wed in one year. Prudence is determined to marry for true love, and after seeing firsthand the splendid chivalry of a certain duke, only one man will do ...Rhys de Winter, the Duke of St. Cyres, hides his cynicism behind a quick wit and an even quicker smile. He must marry an heiress, and as luck would have it, the pretty little seamstress-turned-heiress is exactly what he needs. But he never expected to fall for Prudence, and when his shocking deception is revealed, he will stop at nothing to win her back ...even if it means renouncing every last one of his wicked ways.

Phillip Hawthorne, Marquis of Kayne, has his life mapped out before him. He is a responsible member of the peerage, and rumor has it he may become the next prime minister. And then the unthinkable happens - he literally runs into the woman from his past...Twelve years ago, Maria Martingale was the cook's daughter, and she fancied herself in love with Lawrence Hawthorne, the Marquis' younger brother. But then Phillip got wind of it and threatened to cut Lawrence off, unless Maria left. Refusing to be the cause of family strife, Maria agrees. Now she has run into Phillip, still as cold and ruthless as he had been on that day twelve years ago. He's concerned that Maria will ruin things for Lawrence and his impending marriage, so Phillip does the only thing he can think of to distract her - seduction. But he may get more than he bargains for when his heart begins to thaw and he realizes propriety isn't all it's cracked up to be.