Mending the Marquess

Lady Selby Narayan is twenty-three, rich, and done with men. She moved to the country intending to grow roses and be left alone. The man who owns the orchard four feet over her boundary line has other plans — mostly the plan of not speaking to anyone ever again. The Marquess of Dunwoody, forty-seven, fought a duel six years ago and lost everything in it: his reputation, his friends, his wife. He has been quietly rotting at Dunwoody Hall ever since, and he did not intend on a widow in a straw hat climbing his fence to shout at him about a hedge. But she keeps coming back. And the more she comes back, the more he remembers what it is like to be seen. Then Selby's late husband's brother comes for her fortune, and drags their names into open court. Selby is prepared to fight alone. She is not prepared for the Marquess of Dunwoody to walk into her drawing room, in front of everyone, and stay.