Lady Minerva Sharpe doesn't intend ever to marry-no respectable man would allow her to continue writing her books. So when the only man she was ever attracted to, reckless and wild barrister Giles Masters, proposes that she marry him to meet her grandmother's ultimatum, she counters with a different proposal-a fake courtship that will upset Gran's plans in a way that her brother's fake betrothal did not. But Giles has a few tricks up his sleeve-and one of them is the key to the prickly Minerva's heart.