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'Blackmail is such an ugly word, Miss Lister. It is essential that I marry you. So let us call it a bargain.'
When an ancient law requires all unmarried ladies to wed or surrender half their wealth, the village of Fortune's Folly becomes a haven for fortune hunters - and Miss Alice Lister is a prize to be won!
Maid-turned-heiress Alice has fought hard for a modicum of respectability. Now the insufferably attractive Lord Miles Vickery is certain he can gain her fortune by blackmailing her into marriage.
Miles finds his new-found frankness invaluable in entangling Alice in situations deliciously unbecoming of a lady. Of course, he doesn't yet know that he's falling hopelessly in love with this formidable innocent...