She was trying to escape one unwanted marriage. She never expected to end up in a deliciously inconvenient one with her brother's brooding best [...] Georgiana Chadwick is done being a pawn in Society's games. She has no intention of marrying the ancient marquess her father has chosen for her, no matter how many debts the match would settle. With a daring escape plan in motion, Georgie is finally ready to take control of her life-until her brother's best friend, Lord Jason Pemberton, Earl of Pembroke, catches her in the [...] has no interest in playing the hero. Haunted by the past and determined to keep his heart safely locked away, he only agreed to watch over Georgiana as a favor. But the stubborn, sharp-tongued wallflower is nothing like he expected. She's infuriating, reckless, far too tempting...and suddenly very much his [...] one daring escape leads to a very public scandal, there's only one respectable solution: a marriage of convenience. Now Georgie and Jason are trapped together in delicious forced proximity, matching wits, trading barbs, and trying very hard not to want each [...] the longer they share a house, a future, and one inconveniently irresistible attraction, the harder it becomes to tell where duty ends and desire begins. What started as a scandalous rescue may become the one thing neither of them expected: a forever kind of [...] book was rewritten and expanded in April 2026.