num_pages: 324
description: The Regency Vows series returns with this story about a viscount and his irascible new wife who hopes to chase her husband from their shared home so that she can finally get some peace and quietonly to find that his company is not as onerous as she thought.Viscount Penvale has been working for years to buy back his ancestral home Trethwick Abbey from his estranged uncle. And so hes thrilled when his uncle announces that he is ready to sell but with one major caveatPenvale must marry his uncles ward Jane Spencer. When the two meet in London neither is terribly impressed. Penvale finds Jane headstrong and sharp-tongued. Jane finds him cold and aloof. Nevertheless they agree to a marriage in name only and return to the estate. There Jane enlists her housekeeper for a scheme: to stage a haunting so that Penvale will return to London leaving her to do as she pleases at Trethwick Abbey. But Penvale is not as easily scared as his uncle and as their time together increases Jane realizes that she might not mind her husbands company all that much.
language: English
title: To Swoon and to Spar
publisher: Atria Books