The Trouble with a Fake Courtship — Maggie Weston

A Victorian fake relationship, high society story

Will a courtship ruse…

Lead to complete ruination?

Roguish gentleman Jameson Russell is given an ultimatum by his brother: marry or be cut off. So he hatches a foolproof plan -- find a lady so entirely unsuitable to court that his brother will beg him to stay a bachelor!

Society has shunned Charity Beaumont since her broken engagement and her sister's shameful elopement. So she accepts Jameson's scandalous offer as a means of freedom from London's scathing gossipmongers -- on one condition: Jameson will not touch her. But that's the trouble with a fake courtship -- even the strictest rules can't tame blazing desires…

From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

The Spinster Sisterhood