For Lady Margery the London Season is a glittering social round, to be endured with reluctance, but scarcely enjoyed. She prefers to be a wallflower, or so she says, until her father, besotted by a new wife, gambles away their fortune and the future for their stately family home. In a whirl of delicious confusion, Lady Margery sets out to take the fashionable world by storm--and ensnare a rich husband. Only to find, with three proposals of marriage, that the head cannot always rule the heart.
Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband--and being a loving, if not entirely dutiful daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surrender her hand, this beautiful young lady who could ride, shoot, and argue with any man was not about to lose her head or heart to the dismal dandies of the Marriage Mart. First she met the arrogantly attractive Lord Allstair Stewart, who treated her infuriatingly like a little girl. And then she met the skillfully seductive Lord Channington, who treated her intoxicatingly like a desirable woman. And now she had to choose just which role to play and just how much risk to run.
"You are not going to marry me off to anyone, least of all to an ancient gentleman who has been married twice before!" Not long after this heated exchange, London was aflutter to have in its midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasnia. What scandal would ensue should the ton discover that the bejeweled heir to a royal throne was in truth Miss Felicity Channing of Cornwall, fleeing the match arranged by her wicked stepfather. But how long could even the spirited, clever Felicity carry off this lively masquerade? Especially as the dark, raffish eyes of Lord Arthur Bessamy seemed to look straight through her disguise--and set her innocent heart pounding...