title: How to Entice an Enchantress
author: Hawkins, Karen
description: The Duchess is doing it again! Matchmaking, that is.
  
  Bestselling author Karen Hawkins charms with a delightful retelling of Beauty and the Beast --  Scottish style.
  
  Scarred in the terrible accident that took his wife, gruff Lord Kirk has hidden himself from Society. When he meets his neighbor, Dahlia Balfour -- a young beauty who shares his love for poetry and books -- he realizes she is the one woman who could make him forget the past. But how can such a recluse attract the eye of an enchantress? Kirk appeals to his godmother, the Duchess of Roxburghe, to help him become the dashing, well-dressed hero of Dahlia's dreams.
  
  Arriving at a house party given by the Duchess, Dahlia is unprepared for the change in her neighbor. Suddenly, she is seeing him in a whole new light. When he captures her lips with an ardent kiss, she realizes he could be her romantic hero, but then a jealous rival twists an inadvertent comment she makes. Now Dahlia must persuade Kirk that she's not just a pretty girl feeling pity, but a passionate woman who sees past painful scars into the soul of the man she's come to love.
  
  Hero: Alasdair Dunbar, Lord Kirk
  Heroine: Dahlia Balfour