A staged seduction to solve a murder mystery! After one disastrous season Miss Horatia Carmichael avoids the ton her mind and her tongue are too unfashionably opinionated for her to land a husband! But to find her brother s killer she must join forces with incorrigible rake Lord Devizes and allow the Marquess to pretend to seduce her for all to see! Horatia knows it s not real she s a plain spinster after all but as danger grows so does their desire