When Lady May Hayworth discovers her late brother's journals revealing his many trysts--and the secret children they produced--she decides to play fairy godmother to a beautiful young woman who never believed her world could be anything but ordinary...

All her life Michaela Standish knew she was wildly different from her small-boned, fair-skinned sisters. When she finally finds out her father was the rakish Earl of Woolrich and is swept into the glitter of society, she feels like a princess amongst the ton. At least until the evening of her very first ball--when the most desirable man in all of London mistakes her for a courtesan...

A famous war hero ravaged by grief, Major Adrian Khoury needs a demure, devoted wife to enhance his political career. Certainly not someone like the opinionated Michaela Standish, who has an irritating habit of breaking every rule imposed by society. But he can't stay away from the gypsy-eyed beauty--and before he knows it he's asked Michaela to marry him. As far as he's concerned, it will merely be a marriage of convenience. For this hardened warrior has no intention of opening his heart--not even to the one woman who could heal it...