The Viscount Who Vexed Me

Daring. Darling. Determined.

Next to the Season’s newest diamond, Harriet (Hattie) Woodchurch feels like a plain Jane. But that’s of no consequence, since Hattie’s plan for her future is to earn enough to live far, far away from her embarrassing family.

That is until Mateo Vincente, Duke of Santiava and newly minted Viscount Abbott, arrives in London. While the shy European’s spoken English is impeccable, his writing is less fluent. The ton is eager to meet the handsome bachelor, and so many invitations flood in that Mateo needs a correspondence secretary.

With her perfect penmanship and way with words,Hattie is recommended, and the two bond over books and the ton’s eligible ladies. But when Hattie’s friend Flora becomes smitten with the viscount, things get complicated. Flora is tongue-tied in his presence. To help, Hattie feeds her information about Mateo’s interests. Soon things turn around and Flora appears on track to become his duchess. Yet for Mateo, something’s not quite right. Conversation with Flora isn’t as scintillating as it is with Hattie…

A Royal Match

Lady Lila Aleksander is the pre-eminent matchmaker in all of Europe. The skill comes to her naturally, born out of necessity after her star turn one Season as the most sought-after debutante in all of London London. But when her parents’ scandal made her suddenly the most un-marriable woman in all of England, Lila decided she would have to take matters matters into her own hands. She devised and implemented her own match, and for the last eighteen years she’s been happily married to a Danish prince.

Other notable figures wanted what Lila managed to arrange for herself, and over the years she’s become the matchmaker to Europe’s elite. But she’s more interested in matchmaking people who, for whatever reason, are denied the chance to marry the one they want and deserve. Society is cruel to people who don’t fit a mold. Lila’s style of matchmaking requires finesse: it works best when the parties don’t know they are being matched.

Harriet (Hattie) Woodchurch

Mateo Vincente