Only Summer Nights Will Do — Sandra Sookoo

Sometimes, the heart wants what the heart wants, even if everyone says it's wrong. As the youngest daughter to the Earl of Alderly, Lady Elizabeth Barrows has had a rather luxurious life, but when she's thrown from her horse on an early morning ride, everything changes. Lost and nursing a tender ankle, she's ready to become a watering pot, yet when a handsome stranger comes along to render assistance, she assumes fate is nudging her into the next phase of life. Mr. Douglas Pratt is only a member of the ton by a thread. His father is a baronet, but the family coffers won't support a carefree lifestyle of a gentleman. He must earn a living, and since his looks are quite exceptional, he became a footman in a duke's household. When he comes upon a lady in need one morning on his daily constitutional, he immediately renders aid but somehow there is confusion with his identity, and she assumes he's the very duke he serves. No amount of explaining will change her mind, and because he's smitten, he prolongs the farce merely to stay in her good graces thinking he'll explain all in good time. Yet the more they meet each other during the long summer nights, the more the story grows until there's no escape, and no chance of winning her once the truth comes out. Will class divide and the sin of omission doom their budding romance? Not if they can decide what is truly important in life.