Lady Adventuress
Archery, Helen
SHE DREAMED OF BECOMING A DUCHESS...

Fate had played her a cruel trick.  Spirited and beautiful, Stara Carltons was an orphan whose guardians had spent her inheritance.  As companion to pampered, wealthy Lady Gwendolen, Stara lacked the income or dowry needed to find a suitable husband.  No matter.  She had a brilliant scheme to snare a duke.

HE WAS DETERMINED TO IMPROVE HIS LOT...

A disinherited rake, Marcus Justus plotted to lure lightheaded Lady Gwendolen out from under the very nose of her principal escort, the Duke of Clairidge, and wed her.  But in Stara's sparkling company, Marcus soon found more than a dauntingly clever adversary.  And, in Marcus, a daring lady adventuress would discover that she had finally met her match.

...UNTIL PASSION CONFOUNDED THE BEST-LAID SCHEMES AND LOVE DISRUPTED THEIR PLANS