To reclaim her life!
Lady Beatrice finally has a plan to escape her controlling brother by compromising herself with a gentleman friend, so they are forced to wed. But things go awry when she accidentally throws herself at the wrong man! Now she is honour-bound to marry the Duke of Brigham, her brother’s outrageous best friend. It’s not the safe, secure match she’d planned on – for he has sparked something in her untouched soul that explodes into flame!
Millie Adams considers herself amix of Anne Shirley (loquacious but charming and willing to break a slate overa boy’s head if need be) and Charlotte Doyle (a lady at heart but with thespirit to become a mutineer should the occasion arise). Millie lives in a smallhouse on the edge of the woods, which allows her to escape in the wayshe loves best—in the pages of a book. She loves intense alpha heroes and thewomen who dare to go toe-to-toe with them.