After a humiliating rejection on a London balcony, where a titled suitor offers to make the sharp-tongued Caroline Bingley his mistress rather than his wife, she swears off love for good!
At twenty and one, she’s done chasing illusions. Better to embrace the shelf with dignity than endure one more disappointing humiliation.
Then her world collides with Edward Reinhart, metaphorically and literally. An infuriatingly handsome, quick-witted American industrialist who overhears her takedown of the cad who offended her and finds her sharp tongue far more entertaining than any English drawing room. He makes her a bold proposition, give him three days to prove that love isn’t the deception she believes it to be.
In return, she’ll provide the only thing he’s truly enjoyed in stuffy English society, her company.
What begins as a temporary arrangement of walks, witty sparring, and stolen moments slowly dismantles Caroline’s carefully guarded walls. As old family wounds surface and her icy composure cracks, she discovers that the real risk isn’t falling; it’s letting the only man who’s ever truly seen her sail away without her.
Featuring: Slow Burn x Healing x Angst X HEA