Miss Onyx Hamilton was on the verge of making what everyone agreed was a perfect marriage. The overwhelmingly respectable Andrew Littletree was so taken by her virtue and beauty that he was willing to overlook the scandal clouding her birth and her lack of family and funds.Then, handsome, charming major Jack Beresford came galloping into Onyx's previously sheltered life. But his wealth and aristocratic blood clearly made it highly improbable that he would ever ask for her hand.
Fortunately, the laws of probability had no effect on what Onyx was ready to give this supremely unsuitable gentleman.
Her heart...
Miss Onyx Hamilton knew the risk of going to Major Jack Beresford's isolated country estate. Surely her husband-to-be, the right Reverend Andrew Littletree, would not condone her leaving the safety of home for the perils that this place posed for so lovely and desirable a young lady.Surely tongues would wag about what she was doing with so eminently attractive and intriguingly unattached a gentleman as the major. But Onyx's worry was not what her fiance would think or what the world would say.
Rather it was what she would do if Jack Beresford took her in his arms...