num_pages: 306
description: CAN A SCANDALOUS CHARADEFor seven long years Lady Cassandra Monroe has waited for the man of her dreams to return from the war. Unfortunately he happens to be engaged to her flighty cousin. What Cass wouldnt give to take her cousins place! When he mistakes Cass for Patience Bunbury a fictitious friend her cousin has invented to escape social obligationseven with her future husband Cass thinks this is her chance. LEAD TO TRUE AND LASTING LOVE?After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo Captain Julian Swift is not quite ready to settle down and enter into his unwanted arranged marriageespecially when the real object of his affection turns out to be a beguiling beauty he meets at a party. Patience Bunbury is witty independent passionateand unbeknownst to him the cousin of his current fiance. When the truth about Cass comes outand Julian discovers that their courtship is anything but accidentalwill he surrender his heart to a woman who really is too good to be true?
language: English
title: The Accidental Countess
publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks