HE PITIED THE POOR SOD WHO LOST HIS HEART TO THIS AUDACIOUS MISS....

Though fate had made them co-inheritors of a mill in Manchester, Arabella Fairingdale's plea for funds to improve the appalling working conditions met with Lord Ridgeton's deaf ears. Thus Arabella had one goal: to make Lord Ridgeton a man of great social conscience.

It would not be an easy task. True, he was a war hero and devilishly handsome, but he was haunted by the ravages of the battlefield, having no care for chits with stormy eyes and outrageous demands.

Headstrong and untamed, she might be. But his lordship would soon learn never to underestimate a miss with a purpose--especially in matters of the heart....