Love Is the Enemy

A Perilous Plot

When her cousin Elizabeth's betrothal to the handsome but arrogant Sir Rupert Wroth was announced, Nerina felt only pity for her. First because the timid Elizabeth was already in love with another, a gentle and far more worthy man. And also because marriage to the most notorious scoundrel in Queen Victoria's court—a marriage arranged by his own shameless mistress—spelled disaster for any virtuous girl.

How then did the beautiful Nerina dare to participate in the most outrageous plot ever conceived? How did she dare—hidden beneath the white bridal veil—stand beside Sir Rupert to impersonate her own gentle cousin?