The Fourth Season — Anne Douglas

The Questionable Courtship

Lovely young Lady Elizabeth Fortescue - best known as Bets - had little regard and less use for the gentlemen of the ton. Despite her mother's urgings to make a moneyed match, she had successfully evaded suitors for three seasons running in the Marriage Mart. But now in her fourth season, her flight from wedlock faltered.

The Earl of Burlingham might be the most scandalous rakehell in the realm, but he was handsome as the devil and seductive as sin. The only question was, did he want her as a wife to love and cherish - or was he pursuing her for far less honorable ends? Bets knew that to let down her guard against him was to risk ruin. But the voice of conscience was hard to hear below the beating of a heart aching for the first taste of love and last chance at happiness....