Apsley Family

Can the wrong man be right for her heart? With the threat of ruin looming over her family, Harriet Rigby has one final Season to marry well. Driven by familial duty, Harriet reluctantly agrees to her mother's scheme to entrap the new Viscount Paxton into marriage. All goes according to plan until Harriet discovers the man she's caught alone with in a dark library is not the viscount, but his twin brother. As an unsocial second son, Rowe Apsley never expected to find himself embroiled in scandal. Despite their forced marriage, he's determined to come to know his wife, but how can he achieve that when the woman is too nervous around him to utter a word? Desperate, Rowe devises a plan: pretend to be his twin brother long enough to establish a friendship with Harriet. After all, she's already mistaken their identities once. As the façade continues and Harriet begins to return his deepening regard, Rowe fears he's convinced his wife to fall in love with the wrong man. Will his duplicity cost him his one chance at love?

After a year of bandaging his shattered heart, James Blakely, the Earl of Emerson, has sworn off love for good. But fate has other plans when he's tricked into attending a house party with Lady Rochester, the very woman who tore his world apart. Determined to escape her clutches, James repeatedly evades the widowed duchess…with the unexpected help of Lady Rochester's closest confidante. A reputation-killing secret has long embroiled Amelia Scott in Lady Rochester's schemes. Now, Amelia must assist the dreadful woman in winning Lord Emerson's heart a second time or risk having her own past exposed. As James comes to know Amelia, he begins to question her allegiance to the duchess and vows to discover the truth. When Lady Rochester's ploys escalate, Amelia is torn between safeguarding her family's reputation and protecting the man she secretly loves.