Charades and Chivalry

He knocked her off her feet and into his heart.

As the Season draws to a close, Julian Northcott prepares to return to Highfield Hall, his family’s estate in Yorkshire, though his wish to meet a woman who can stir his heart has not been granted. Until his final day in Town, when an unfortunate incident turns fortunate, and places him in the company of the lovely Annabelle Fairfax.

Annabelle Fairfax is promised to another, but she can’t get the handsome gentleman who knocked her over—and set her back on her feet—out of her mind. Still, her engagement to Leo de Witte was set long ago by her doting parents and his, and it is an agreement she will not break, even though her heart apparently yearns for another. Now, she could only pray that her ailing father, whom she adores, will be well enough to walk her down the aisle.