The Marriage Scheme
CUPID'S TANGLE

While her friends dreamed of weddings, Georgia Canning aspired to scholarship. Indeed, the only marriage she imagined was one that would see her widowed mother safely settled. And since Mama and her admirer had yet to resolve the matter themselves, Georgia planned a neat stratagem to set their courtship in motion. All went well until she tried to rout another of her mother's suitors, the rakish Lord Ashcombe. Called Lucas by his friends, he was most unsuitable for anyone's mother.

Georgia's dear mother agreed. For she knew the dashing nobleman was the very man to entice her scheming, bookish, darling daughter to matrimony instead. And Lucas was well pleased with Georgia's chestnut curls, merry green eyes, and fiery spirit. Convinced that Lucas merely felt a brotherly affection for her, Georgia was too busy scheming to listen to the promptings of her heart.

Hero: Lord Lucas Ashcombe
Heroine: Georgia Canning