An enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience Regency romance. Joined forever. in holy acrimony! Graydon Ingram, the Earl of Blackdown, may be the most handsome man Miss Florence Dearing has ever seen--but he's also the most aggravating! As if his horse muddying her one good gown wasn't enough, now the arrogant aristocrat is embroiled in a bitter land dispute with her father. Worse, he may well be in the right. To break the stalemate, Florence accepts the Earl's scandalous proposition: a convenient marriage! Thrust from village obscurity to the ton's gilded sphere, she discovers life as a countess has its own perils. Chief among them? A husband whose every gaze heats her blood to boiling point! From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.