Fine Feathers
When a lady accepts a bogus proposal, she must watch lest her feelings get engaged...

CAN IT BE TRUE?  INSTEAD OF BEING A PENNILESS ORPHAN, SHE IS NOW A WEALTHY HEIRESS!

After years of chaffing under her grandfather's tight-fisted ways, Damaris Spenser can finally have anything she desires:  new ball gowns, her own curricle, even a Season in London.  She can have everything except what money cannot buy - experience.

For the years Damaris spent at Spenser Hill had been sorely lacking in social intercourse -- no dancing, no cards, no society whatsoever.  With all her wealth and beauty, she is a veritable greenhead, and now the prey of every young man in dun territory.

So when the smooth-talking Gregory Litton tries to compromise her in his private quarters, the ever-watchful Lord Weald saves her with subterfuge:  he announces her engagement to himself!

Now Damaris and Lord Weald must continue the charade until a decent interval has passed and they can part without scandal.  but neither of them expects their playacting to become, suddenly, all too real.