NYT and USA Today best-selling author! Nominated for the prestigious
romance Rita award!
John Fitzhugh Wyckerly has been the spare heir all his life, supporting
himself with gambling and charm. The news that he's inherited the
bankrupt title of earl of Danecroft shatters his indolent world. Even
penniless, he's always paid his debts, but now the estate's creditors
are closing in. He can fake his death and run for cover or accept
overwhelming responsibility and find a rich wife - one who will also
accept his illegitimate terror of a daughter.
On his way to find an heiress, he meets Abigail Merriweather, who is
neither rich nor aristocratic, but she can tame The Terror and stomp
cockroaches. Unfortunately she needs a wealthy, powerful man who will
fight her father's executor and retrieve her four half siblings. When an
unexpected inheritance falls into Abby's lap, she sets out for London to
seek a lawyer.
Can Fitz charm his practical Abby into trusting him to save her siblings
when it's doubtful that he can even save himself? And can Abby surrender
reason and logic for the folly of love offered by a man who can have any
woman he wants but insists he wants only her?
