Lord Samuel Chance, suddenly Marquess of Aylesbury, has a problem. A one-hundred-and-twenty-thousand-pound problem.

The fortune has been left to him by a distant relative, but the will stipulates it must go to him and his wife. Which would be great, if he had a wife. An accidental panicked lie to a solicitor-and his mother-later, and Samuel Chance in is the market for a swift marriage.

Rosemary Morgan is ready for anything to change swiftly in her life. After running away from home and becoming an actress on the stage, she's lost her role in her latest production, along with her opportunity for any income, and now-now a man who is far too handsome is offering to pay her to be his wife for a year and a day.

All she's got to do is agree to never to consummate the marriage.

Now it's time for the biggest role of her life: marchioness and Society lady. But there are secrets in Rose's past that might upset everything, and when feelings start to develop on both sides, how long can they fight this?

Good thing it's all an act, right? After all, Samuel has taken a chance on this woman...

This novel continues the highly anticipated Chance family drama, with sixteen cousins and triple the problems. Tropes include: marriage of convenience, fake engagement, strangers to lovers, hidden past, and of course, Emily E K Murdoch's tried and true method of sizzling, joyful romance.

This full-length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after and no cliffhangers. It is part of a series that can be read in any order.