A Wife for Winsbarren — Anne Gallagher

In this Regency novella, John Tremont, Viscount Winsbarren is desperate to find a wife. However, his fumbling ways in Society laud him as a laughingstock and the women he tries to seduce say they would rather marry his eighty year old father than him. In a last ditch attempt to secure a life's companion, he enlists the aid of a friend who comes up with the idea to place an advertisement in The Ladies Gazette. Over two hundred women answer the ad and John is gob-smacked. Could finding a wife really be this easy?

Unfortunately, as John reads the letters he realizes finding the woman of his dreams isn't as easy as he thought. Narrowing the playing field to five, John begins to despair after spying on the first two ladies. They are NOT what he was looking for.

Giving up on the whole scheme seems the best course, until he meets the final Lady. Could she really be the one he's been looking for?