She can fool the world, but not her own heart…

Lady Courtney Lennox couldn’t pour tea to save her life. Having lost her mother at a young age, her lack of manners mark her unfit for society. A fact that never bothered her in the slightest. Until the day she meets her stepbrother.

Logan Slater, the new Marquess of Darcey, finds it hard to accept that his mother remarried just a year after his father’s sudden death. Upon his visit to his new family, he never expects to get ambushed by dogs. Or to find their rebellious owner so irresistible.

Forced to attend the London Season in search of appropriate spouses, each ball is an ugly reminder of their forbidden feelings for each other. Resolved to flee to Gretna Green, Courtney and Logan’s plans crash along with Courtney’s carriage. As they both quickly realize, the one to do them part isn’t the gaol. It is death…