One masquerade. One misplaced slipper. One very unexpected betrothal.

When Elizabeth Bennet dons the mask of Athena at a glittering Twelfth Night masquerade, she expects only an evening of diversion—not disaster. But after a misadventure involving a determined rake, a lost shoe, and a most inconvenient encounter in the garden, she finds herself at the centre of London’s latest scandal.

Fitzwilliam Darcy prides himself on propriety. But when he spots a lady in distress at a ball and gallantly steps in to help, he doesn’t rescue her from trouble—he walks straight into it with her. One country maiden, a moonlight encounter, and...

One masquerade. One misplaced slipper. One very unexpected betrothal.

When Elizabeth Bennet dons the mask of Athena at a glittering Twelfth Night masquerade, she expects only an evening of diversion—not disaster. But after a misadventure involving a determined rake, a lost shoe, and a most inconvenient encounter in the garden, she finds herself at the centre of London’s latest scandal.

Fitzwilliam Darcy prides himself on propriety. But when he spots a lady in distress at a ball and gallantly steps in to help, he doesn’t rescue her from trouble—he walks straight into it with her. One country maiden, a moonlight encounter, and a slipper in the wrong hands is all it takes: the ton believes them engaged—or worse. Now entangled with the quick-witted, sharp-tongued Miss Elizabeth Bennet, his carefully ordered, predictable world begins to unravel.