Shocking rumours are swirling in London: Is Jonathan Haverly, Duke of Belford, really engaged to a penniless nobody?
When Jonathan Haverly set out to find the truth behind the wild rumours of his engagement, he never imagined this.
He hardly knows what is more disgusting that the social-climbing Mary Collins would spread lies in an attempt to improve her own status, or that she would choose Sophia Anderson, her own cousin, as the woman so lowly she could never be worthy of the Duke of Belford.
Worse still, with his vulnerable younger sister about to come out in society, Jonathan cannot allow anyone to...
Shocking rumours are swirling in London: Is Jonathan Haverly, Duke of Belford, really engaged to a penniless nobody?
When Jonathan Haverly set out to find the truth behind the wild rumours of his engagement, he never imagined this.
He hardly knows what is more disgusting that the social-climbing Mary Collins would spread lies in an attempt to improve her own status, or that she would choose Sophia Anderson, her own cousin, as the woman so lowly she could never be worthy of the Duke of Belford.
Worse still, with his vulnerable younger sister about to come out in society, Jonathan cannot allow anyone to think the Haverly family is a fitting target for such games.
Mary Collins must be shown the error of her ways, even if that means taking some rather unusual measures.
When the rumours of her supposed engagement reached Sophia Anderson, they seemed like a cruel joke.
Sophie knows better than to hope for love.
Five years ago, her fiancé abandoned her when tragedy left her penniless and bereft.
Yet Sophie refuses to give in to despair, finding quiet contentment in walks by the seaside and the hope that her younger sister Isabel might still find happiness.
To give her the London Season that could change her life, she would do anything even enter into an outlandish fake engagement with the Duke of Belford.
It’s the perfect plan.
Jonathan will give Isabel Anderson a London season, and Sophie will help him entrap her vicious cousin.
All they have to do is remember that their engagement is nothing more than a counterfeit.
But as Sophie and Jonathan play a dangerous game in London high society, their feelings for each other are becoming undeniably real.
Perhaps even real enough to overcome the gap between a penniless nobody and a duke…
A Counterfeit Engagement is a sweet, witty Regency romance about friendship, self-worth, and rediscovering joy.
This is a closed-door romance with no explicit content.
Discover a heroine who thought she had lost everything, only to find her own strength, and a hero’s long journey to learning what love really is.
