The Infamous Earl — Margaret Summerville

A Perilous Pretense

Georgiana Morely could see only one way to wed the devastatingly handsome but dismally penniless Lord Thomas Jeffreys. She had to convince her disapproving parents that she would otherwise make an even more disastrous match--with none other than the notorious Earl of Dunraven, whose libertine ways shocked even London's sophisticated society.

True. Dunraven did not know of her plan. True, when he found out, he proved eager to take their imaginary intimacy much further than Georgiana ever dreamed it might go. Georgiana was sure she could manage this most dangerous deception, even when Dunraven began to show the seductive skills that made him the premier rake in the realm. But that was before Georgiana discovered that the fire she was playing with was in her own passionate heart....