A marriage of convenience based on love

Diana Tilney hates the very idea of marriage—married women are virtually owned by their husbands and have no freedom. But when her sister and brother-in-law die and leave their daughters in Diana’s care, Ned Faulkes, the new earl, needs her with them, in Swanstead, their palatial home.

For her nieces’ sake, Diana agrees to a marriage of convenience. Ned swears he doesn’t want an heir, and that it will be a marriage in name only. He’s being honest: his first wife died in childbirth and he never wants to put a woman in that position again.

A woman who rejects marriage, a man who rejects intimacy…can they trust each other enough to make a real marriage together?