Lady Harriet Worthington is as unconventional as they come. She runs a bakery, a mill, a household — and her own life. Having weathered one philandering husband, she's sworn never to wed again.Elias Westwood, partner with her late husband in a West Indies spice company, is at his wit's end. Lady Harriet has been selling off shares of his business — and distributing the proceeds to her neighbors for necessities like cows, sheep, food, and other provisions — until he is nearly ruined.He plans to outmaneuver the annoyingly independent widow and win back his shares, but Elias's extraordinary gifts of smell and taste — so useful in judging fine spices — prove his Achilles's heel. Lady Harriet's meat pies leave him weak in the knees. Her garlic-buttered prawns enchant. Her Turkish trifle intoxicates. Elias cannot resist her culinary creations — or, it turns out, her feminine charms.When she maneuvers him into masquerading as her fiancé for the Season, he certainly never plans on falling...

Lord Linton, a master of illusion as cunning as he is handsome, is out to capture his father's killer. Taking a page from the bard, he decides the play is the thing to catch the villain. But when he hires an impoverished actress to masquerade as his mistress, even Linton cannot envision the extraordinary performance that awaits.Poor but well-born, Miss Sarah Armistead agrees to pose as the latest conquest of a cynical rake to pay for her younger brother William's schooling. She considers Eton her brother's birthright as a baron's son, even if he does not know how poor they are. But as she begins to succumb to her employer's charms, Sarah finds it hard to keep up the ruse.A little magic and a lot of sparks catch this Regency couple unawares...