She feeds him information to keep the title hunters at bay. He starts with wanting her help, and ends up wanting her heart.

A duke, even a reluctant one, is duty-bound to marry and to sire his own heir. When the savagery of the marriage mart overwhelms the quiet, scholarly Duke of Burgess, he turns to a friend to help him repel the worst of the bunch.

Newly emerged from mourning her father, the unassuming Rose Nottingham believes herself outside most eligible mens notice. Instead, she lends her knowledge of the ton to helping her beleaguered friend Frederick St. John, the Duke of Burgess. But watching him court other, more eligible ladies turns increasingly harder the deeper her own feelings grow.

Shes spent her life writing everyone elses love story. Its time she learns to write her own.

Beloved and sickly since childhood, Mary Danforth lends her pen to her siblings courtships while accepting her own inevitable spinsterhood. When her brother returns home with a brooding, handsome captain in tow, Mary strikes up an unlikely friendship with the gentleman that makes her dare to dream of more.

Captain William Hayes has never thought to take a wife, not with his own fortunes as uncertain as they are. But seeing an admirable young lady unnecessarily give up on all her prospects might just be what it takes to make him want to sort out a better future, specifically one with her.