Graydon Ingram, the Earl of Blackdown, may be the most handsome man Miss Florence Dearing has ever seen--but he's also the most aggravating! As if his horse muddying her one good gown wasn't enough, now the arrogant aristocrat is embroiled in a bitter land dispute with her father. Worse, he may well be in the right. To break the stalemate, Florence accepts the Earl's scandalous proposition: a convenient marriage! Thrust from village obscurity to the ton's gilded sphere, she discovers life as a countess has its own perils. Chief among them? A husband whose every gaze heats her blood to boiling point!