Nearly a Lady — Alissa Johnson

Lord Gideon Haverston wanted to right his family's wrongs -- but this damsel in distress has little reason to trust high society types and no interest in joining them...

THE WOMAN MAKES THE MAN...

Winnefred Blythe learned at a young age to make do with very little. After the death of her father, she taught herself to live on a pauper's allowance -- until a charming visitor promises her the funds that had been stolen from her through the years. But Freddie isn't comfortable with the trappings of money -- or the attentions of a handsome stranger from London...

BUT CAN A MAN MAKE A LADY?

After the war, Lord Gideon Haverston resolved to never again burden himself with the troubles of others. Still, he was expecting to be greeted as a hero by the beautiful, if eccentric, young woman his stepmother cheated out of house and home, not suspected as a conspirator. Indeed, the sitution is more complicated than Gideon had expected -- and the task of taming the untrusting Winnefred much more alluring...