Despite her impoverished family's insistence, headstrong Lady Portia Derring is determined to refuse to marry avowed bachelor Heath Moreton, a wealthy and rakish earl she has never met, but despite their mutual vows to avoid matrimony, the reluctant bride and unwilling groom may have each met their match. Original Sister to a duke, the impoverished bride Lady Portia Derring reluctantly travels to Yorkshire to meet the wealthy earl her family insists she wed. Meeting him is as far as she will go. Refusing to be a sacrificial lamb to satisfy her brother's debts, this determined lady will do everything in her power not to gain a proposal.
