Though she cant afford the coal to heat her drafty Mayfair mansion, Felicity Langley still clings to her dream of marrying a duke--one shes had since her very first curtsy. After all, shes been all but promised to the very proper and very lofty Duke of Hollindrake for the last four years. Now all she has to do is meet him. But what Felicity doesnt realize is that she has already met her dukehes the rather unfashionable yet altogether too-handsome man who has just turned up at her doorstep. And Felicity has just mistaken himfor her new footman! By rights, Thatcher should immediately set this presumptuous chit straight and tell her he has no intention of following through with a betrothal his grandfatherthe previous dukearranged. But hes quickly smitten by Felicitys delightful determination, her irrepressible charmand her breathtaking beauty. Yes, shed wed him in an instant were his true identity revealedbut Thatchers vowed to marry only for love. So begins his deception and his conquest of this uncommon woman who doesnt believe in romance, but is about to find her heart and passions set aflame by the unlikely servant shes sworn to resist.

