How to Impress a Marquess

TAKE ONE MARQUESS: Proper, put-upon, dependable, but concealing a sensitive artist’s soul. ADD ONE BOHEMIAN LADY: Creative, boisterous, unruly, but secretly yearning for a steadfast love, home, and family. STIR in a sensational serialized story that has society ravenous for each installment. COMBINE with ambitious guests at an ill-fated house party hosted by a treacherous dowager possessing a poison tongue. SHAKE until a stuffy marquess and rebellious lady make a shocking discovery: the contents of their hearts are just alike. Take a sip. You’ll laugh, you’ll swoon, you’ll never want this moving Victorian love story to end.

George, Marquess of Marylewick, is exasperated with his unruly ward, Lilith Dahlgren. Every day he escapes her perils by delving into a popular serial novel, having fallen in love with its intrepid heroine, Colette. Unbeknownst to George, the writer might be closer than he thinks.

Lilith just wants her inheritance so she can be free of this stuffy, tightfisted marquess. Using a pen name, she vents her frustrations by creating her alter ego, Colette. Little does Lilith know that beneath the marquess’s starched shirt is a man of more husbandly material…