His Ruined Countess

England's richest commoner ruined her once. Now he needs her ledgers. Six years ago, in a solicitor's office, Barnaby Crane offered Lady Cassandra Ashby an arrangement and she refused him with the door half open. He married no one. She married a soldier who died at Waterloo and left her a title, a debt, and a failing circulating library in Bath. When Crane walks in out of the rain and buys the lease from under her, Cassandra assumes revenge. He has other plans. The last of his mills will close without the trade routes his dead partner kept secret, and the only person who ever read those ledgers over his shoulder and corrected him is standing in front of him with chalk on her cuff. He proposes a partnership. Scandalous, profitable, and utterly without sentiment. Cassandra agrees to save the library. One London season later, a rival viscount is ruined, the mills run, and a mask is finally taken off at Vauxhall — along with the truth about why Barnaby Crane refused her six years ago when he wanted her most. A steamy Regency second chance romance for readers who like their heroines with ink on their hands and their heroes on their knees.