He’d been warned that Woman Clarissa Crambray was harmful. Stomping on feet and burning up piffles, the chestnut-haired beauty was clearly a drive with which to become reckoned. But for Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, experienced from the Napoleonic Wars, this was just the challenge he needed. He could deal with one female and her “unlucky past.” Could any woman handle him?

Female Clarissa Crambray wanted a spouse, but maybe not as much as her stepmother wanted one for her. Really! Doffing her spectacles might make a girl prettier, but how would she find? She’d already caused enough mayhem to earn a rather horrible nickname. Yet, as all the suitors appeared to timid apart in terror, there arrived a guy to lead her to the dance ground. A dark, attractive, blur of a guy.