She\'s learned to ask for nothing...
Can the squire and spinster find a happily ever after when all of polite society intends to deny them exactly that?.
Hecate\'s family has no quarrel with Phillip stealing her heart, but her fortune and her hand in marriage are quite another matter.
He sees what society does not: Behind Hecate\'s demure facade lurks a fierce heart and a brilliant mind.
She\'s quiet, proper, plain, and-to Phillip-utterly fascinating.
Miss Hecate Brompton, is anything but glittering.
For the sake of his family he must nonetheless learn to do the pretty.
Phillip is mere gentry at heart, and the glittering ballrooms of Mayfair leave him frankly bored.
To win her love, he will sacrifice everything.
She was once the awkward outsider, and knows exactly how treacherous the waters of the Beau Monde can be for the unsuspecting.
When Phillip Vincent approaches her with a request to become his de facto finishing governess, she\'s both appalled by and sympathetic to his plan.
She faces enough challenges keeping her rackety family from scandal and ruin without the added bother of marriage.
Miss Hecate Brompton is on the shelf and relieved to finally be there with her personal wealth in tact.
She\'s learned to ask for nothing..
