Meg Timmons is without a dowry, and with a family steeped in scandal, she’s a spinster in the making. It also doesn’t help that she’s been in love with her best friend’s brother, Hart Highgate, for years. But when Meg learns that Hart has decided to choose a bride, she realises this is her last chance to blossom… Set to inherit an earldom, Hart Highgate requires an appropriate bride with whom to start a family. A former rake and gambler, Hart has never paid much attention to things like marital duty. But when his little sister’s best friend reminds him of a kiss they once shared, will he be tempted by the woman who’s the perfectly wrong choice? Valerie Bowman whisks readers away to a Regency-inspired take on the most famous love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet.