Rhyme and Reason — Jo Ann Ferguson

The Scandalous Secret...
Emily Talcott has enough to worry about, trying to see her lovely younger sister suitably married before their father's lamentable lack of skill in cards sends them to the poor house. Now this well-bred miss is fending off financial disaster in a most outrageous way--by writing the love poems that are the talk of the London ton. No one suspects that this staid young lady is the mysterious French poet, the notorious Marquis de la Cour!

...of a Captivating Lady
Emily has no wish to court scandal, certainly not with the arrogant Viscount Wentworth, a dashing rake whose skill at the card table is rivaled only by his way with the ladies. Wentworth may be irresistibly handsome; but the insufferable cad has had the audacity to laugh at the Marquis de la Cour's poetry Emily has a good mind to take the viscount to task. If only his kisses weren't leaving her so uncharacteristically light-headed...

Hero: Damon Wentworth
Heroine: Emily Talcott