A Victorian fake relationship, high society story Will a courtship ruse. Lead to complete ruination? Roguish gentleman Jameson Russell is given an ultimatum by his brother: marry or be cut off. So he hatches a foolproof plan--find a lady so entirely unsuitable to court that his brother will beg him to stay a bachelor! Society has shunned Charity Beaumont since her broken engagement and her sister's shameful elopement. So she accepts Jameson's scandalous offer as a means of freedom from London's scathing gossipmongers--on one condition: Jameson will not touch her. But that's the trouble with a fake courtship--even the strictest rules can't tame blazing desires. From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. The Spinster Sisterhood.