Lady Adelaide Bell is the second daughter of an scheming social-climbing mother. Lord Trenton Hawthorne is a happy-go-lucky second son of a duke. When they get trapped in an old ruin overnight, social custom require that they get married or their unchaperoned night will destroy both of their reputations. So they go through the ceremony, but a marriage in name is not a marriage indeed. Trent hardly knows his new wife, but he wants his marriage to be a happy one. How can he help both of them come together and have the kind of meaningful union he has always hoped for?This is kind of an upside-down period romance. Most books in this genre start with the couple falling in love and end with the couple deciding to get married, but this one starts with them getting married, and ends with them finally falling in love with each other. It is really sweet and has some deliciously awkward and funny moments. Both the main characters are likeable and the reader is cheering for their success. Like the other book I have read in this series, An Inconvenient Beauty, this is a Christian period romance, so the author adds a religous element. As in the other book, I thought it felt a little contrived, but it wasn't really a problem for the story. I am pretty sure I will read the other two in this series. (346 p, 2017)
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