
Bound by the promise he made to his father to marry by before his 31st birthday, Max needs a wife with good behaviors, someone who’ll never make him feel unease, a woman who is the complete opposite of his ex-fiancé. Max, serving as Duke of Harcourt is both interested and also irritated by Sophie’s lack of respect, finding her friendliness and her lack of any trace of deceit refreshing. She chats happily away, giving them an explanation that she is and why she is in the garden, and she makes her way back to her aunt’s place. Unfortunately, she loses her grip, and the dog runs right into the path of her aunt’s fashionable neighbors out for a stroll.

To earn her aunt’s approval, Sophie decides to take care of her aunt’s obese dog by taking him out of the house for a walk across the garden opposite her aunt’s house. However, she’s enjoying having her time and space for a change. Her eccentric aunt is ever on the bed, and so there’s little for Sophie to do. Miss Sophie Trevelyan is enjoying her stay away from her family home living. In her standalone novel, Lara Temple has woven a charming and entertaining story in which hero and heroine find themselves suddenly betrothed and forced to find a way to reconcile their divergent personalities. She has been writing stories for as long as she can remember. Her life has been about changes she has traveled across three continents and gone through the military, philosophy student, Wall Street, wife, and mom. Lara Temple is an English author of historical romance books best known for her Sinful Sinclairs and Wild Lord and Innocent Ladies.
