My Lord Tyrant — Margaret Summerville

The Perfect Enemy

Lord Alexander Moncrief, the sixth Earl of Glencairn, stood for everything that
Miss Athena Blair was against.

Athena was passionately opposed to aristocratic titles and extravagant wealth, and Moncrief not only possessed but flaunted both.

Athena wished to be judged by her brilliant intellect, while Moncrief seemed to be taken only by her dazzling beauty when they met.

Moncrief seemed to feel that his rank and riches, coupled with his good looks and charm, could win him any woman he wanted -- and Athena vowed to prove him wrong, even when this lord she loved to hate turned out to be a man she hated to love....