title: An Improper Alliance
author: Sumner, Olivia
description: Even the sternest chaperone can be diverted with a kiss!
  
  THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW
  With no marriage prospects of her own on the London horizon, Celeste Prescott was pressed to accept the position of chaperone to a headstrong, lovestruck chit of the ton.  Celeste undertook to protect her charge from the amorous advances of the Bavarian prince who had turned the girl's pretty but empty head, but the moment she met Prince Lothar's handsome friend, Lord Campion, all thoughts of duty fled.  Maybe a mild flirtation was not such a bad idea after all...particularly one of her own!
  
  THE PRIMROSE PATH
  For the world-weary Earl of Campion, performing a small service for the King of Heligo-Holstein was a welcome diversion.  He'd remind the king's renegade nephew of his duties to his country and persuade the lovesick Lothar to cease his dalliance with an unsuitable London lass.  But when the earl learned that the young lady was guarded not by a dragon but by a beguiling minx named Celeste, his tactics took a different direction.  One way or another, he'd divert the charming chaperone from her appointed task...and into his arms!
  
  Hero: Roderic Courtney-Trench, Earl of Campion
  Heroine: Celeste Prescott