A young girl who believes herself to be a burden on her two maiden aunts runs off and contemplates marriage to an arrogant man. - Goodreads.com Misunderstood words and mistaken hearts... When a Regency lass falls on lean times, marriage looms as the only solution. And so Honoria Newcombe pledges herself to blond and bashful Alexander Blackwood. Alexander might make a most attractive husband -- if only he could remember to be a husband. But busy with his books and fearful of Honoria's feelings for that bounder Claude Kemp, Alex hesitates to make the maid he married into the wife he desires. With her marriage foundering from within and her virtue under attack from without, Honoria seems slated for certain scandal -- until the boy she married proves himself the man she has come to love. - FictionDB.com