Trouble With A Fake Courtship by Maggie Weston

A Victorian fake relationship, high society story.

Will a courtship ruse...lead to complete ruination?

Roguish gentleman Jameson Russell is given an ultimatum by his brother: marry or be cut off. So, he hatches a foolproof plan — find a lady so entirely unsuitable to court, that his brother will beg him to stay a bachelor!

Society has shunned Charity Beaumont since her broken engagement, and her sister’s shameful elopement. So, she accepts Jameson’s scandalous offer as a means of freedom from London’s scathing gossipmongers — on one condition: Jameson will not touch her. But that’s the trouble with a fake courtship, even the strictest rules can’t tame blazing desires...