A Regency historical from the New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James, bound to delight Heyer fans.

If you kiss an Earl, you start a dangerous game...

'Annabel Essex has one purpose: to snare a wealthy husband. The last person she wants to charm is a handsome but poor Scottish earl... delicious.' Publishers Weekly

When the dashing Earl of Ardmore tempts Miss Annabel Essex, the most unattainable of the four beautiful Essex sisters, with the promise of a kiss, she resists, just as she snubs his teasing offers of marriage. For what would she get if she married him? Why, nothing but a faded Scottish title and a hovel in the highlands.

But by some cruel twist of fate Annabel finds herself in a carriage bound for Scotland (the place she abhors) with the penniless Ardmore - and with all the world thinking they're man and wife! To make matters worse Annabel becomes embroiled in a flirtatious game of words with the Earl - in which the prize is a kiss...and the forfeit... A moment of passionate madness with Ardmore and the choice is clear - marriage or disgrace.

Yet when she arrives at the Earl's Scottish Estate - contrary to what she had been lead to believe - she finds the hovel to be a castle and her Earl far from impoverished. And she learns - in the bridal bedchamber and elsewhere - that there is more to marriage than just kissing...