Fair Play — Suzanne Ellison

HE WAS HER KNIGHT, AND SHE WAS HIS LADY

But Betsy Hanover and Geoffrey "Spence" Spencer were just pretending to be lovers for the sake of Muskingum, Ohio's Renaissance Faire.

And then they truly did fall in love, a development that shocked both of them. After all, romance wasn't what it used to be. These days men like Spence, who had been badly burned by love, wanted any future partners to sign cold calculated contracts -- something Betsy, a successful business whiz in her own right, refused to do.

Nevertheless, a voice nagged her: was it worth sacrificing the chance of a lifetime for a principle?