An Inconvenient Engagement
(Staunton Sisters Book Three)
She’s traveling to London to accept a husband she doesn’t want. He’s traveling there to marry a woman he doesn’t love. Then they meet each other.
With her two elder sisters happily settled, Honoria Staunton is tired of waiting for her own life to begin. She leaves Longstone village for London, determined to reconcile with her formidable grandfather and accept the husband he’s chosen for her—until the handsome stranger across from her on the train turns out to be exactly the kind of man she’s always dreamed of marrying.
Philip, Marquess of Hardingstone, is bound for London to fulfill a promise made by his late parents: marry the guardian’s daughter who has always felt more like a sister than a future wife. It’s the life everyone expects him to accept—until meeting Honoria makes it feel less like duty and more like a cage.
When Honoria reveals her grandfather’s plans, the two strangers strike an outrageous bargain: they’ll marry each other. It’s brilliant. It’s practical. And it gives them both a way to escape the lives their families chose for them.
But as old promises and family expectations close in, Honoria and Philip must decide whether the engagement they invented to escape their fate is the one thing neither can bear to lose.
Their engagement was supposed to solve everything.
Falling in love was never part of the plan.