The Hired Heart

A far-too-eligible young woman... a surprising pact... a most unladylike wager....

LADY MARGARET BUCKHAM FORMS A PLAN...

London, Meg thought disdainfully as she galloped furiously down the dark country lane. The glittering balls and society gossips; the mincing young ladies she would be expected to call friends; the fashionable young fops that passed for men, all pawns in the plans of the awesome mamas for whom position was the stake and marriage the prize.

She would not give in so easily, by heaven! She would not allow herself to be bred like one of her own horses. Slowly, a scheme began to form -- a plan so bold that Lady Margaret Buckham laughed with pleasure in the cool, rushing night air....