James Hargrave, Earl of Arden, urgently needed a wife — and who better than his best friend's sister?

He wasn't looking for passion in this marriage of convenience, and plain Kate Honeycourt had been on the shelf for years.

Why, then, should she so firmly turn him down? Surely she couldn't be holding out for a love match? Although, curiously, the more he saw of Kate, the more aware he became of her attractions. Maybe love wasn't as impossible as he'd once thought...

A COUNTRY MISS IN HANOVER SQUARE by Anne Herries

Susannah could not help wishing that she and Harry might have had a little time together before all his relatives arrived.

She was trying to accustom herself to the idea that she was engaged to a man she loved — a man she was not sure felt quite the same about her. She knew that Harry felt something for her, but most marriages were arranged for reasons other than love, and she could not yet be certain that she was loved as she would wish to be — to distraction.