A DESPERATE NOBLEMAN Lord Lorenzo Wolfe craved solitude. All he wanted from the isolated estate he inherited was peace and quiet to inspire his poetry. What he got instead were insufferable house guests! Lady Valeria Fanning and her mischievous nephew David, both wards of his predecessor, had arrived on his doorstep as part of his legacy. Lorenzo was honor- bound to take them in. But as David’s pranks and Valeria’s unsettling effect on him turned his world topsy turvy, Lorenzo vowed to find a more convenient arrangements man for Valeria to many! A DISTRAUGHT LADY Although Valeria didn’t want to live in the country, poverty made her swallow her pride. So she sadly accepted exile from London at a lonely mansion where her handsome host hurrumphed he’d rather be alone. Now, she suspected he had a scheme to wed her to a local bachelor… A DEVILISH DILEMMA… Couldn’t Lorenzo see that the three of them were becoming a family? Didn’t he know why his verses were suddenly filled with bittersweet desire…and his heart with passion? Alas, Lorenzo was writing himself into a corner…for he was planning to let wedding bells ring for Valeria and the wrong groom.