When the Crown awards spy Caine Parkhurst the title of marquess, it's with the outrageous stipulation he marries within the year! Caine's catapulted into London's ballrooms in search of a bride, but the last thing the rakish bachelor is looking for is love. Once a diamond, Lady Mary is now in danger of becoming a wallflower--or, worse, being married off to a man of her father's choosing! To escape the relentless matchmaking, she agrees to a fake courtship with the new marquess. Yet his touch leaves her longing to court this rake...for real!