The Seventh Season

Miranda Blake is the most admired young woman of the London Season, graceful and sought after, yet she has never seriously considered marriage. A chance remark from a spiteful society matron, suggesting she is past her prime, alarms her. Across the city, Derek Lang, a blunt and determined American, has arrived in England with practical aims: buying goods for his family's firm and restoring his grandfather's good name. Those plans shift when he is drawn into helping a young woman in trouble. Together they devise a pretend courtship meant to provoke a rival, but the arrangement soon raises the question of whether a false show of affection can turn genuine.