A Season at Brighton — Alice Chetwynd Ley

Miss Catherine Denham runs away to Brighton rather than meet Lord Gerard, Viscount Pamyngton, the stuffy man her parents want her to marry only to find herself rescued by him.
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RECKLESS, IMPETUOUS, SHE WAS TOO ANXIOUS TO BECOME A WOMAN TO REMEMBER TO BE A LADY...

DANGEROUS VENTURE

Wild, headstrong Catherine Denham wanted nothing more than an exciting holiday season at Brighton - and nothing less than a family arranged meeting with some stuffy Viscount who was looking for a wife. So it was that she decided to run away.

But in staid Regency England, nice young ladies didn't do things like that. And suddenly Catherine found herself in the clutches of a stranger who was hardly a gentleman, only to be rescued by a gentleman who was hardly a stranger, and caught up in a dangerous intrigue of love and honor that threatened to destroy all her hopes of romance forever.