Shortlisted for the RNA Awards 2024! The friend she's loved. Is now the husband she must resist. Lady Isobel might be the daughter of the late Lord Martyn, but she's treated by her family as a maid. So when her childhood best friend Leo Havelock reveals that he will only inherit his fortune if he marries--immediately!--she agrees to be his convenient countess. Their union offers Isobel the chance to escape her home.but can she escape the feelings she has long had for her husband?.