"After two unendurable years spent living with unloving relatives, beautiful but penniless Genevieve Quince flees to her late parents' abandoned country estate- intending to support herself by turning the ramschackle manor into a resort for those shunned by the London ton. Handsome, wealthy but insufferably arrogant, Lord Miles Bradford is horrified at the thought of riff-raff overruning the neighboring manse. A marriage of convenience, however, to the resourceful Miss Quince would both halt the dreaded invasion and quiet his family's demands that he sire an heir. But the spirited Genevieve is not to be so easily won. And the price of her compliance is an undying, unconditional love- a coin the womanizing rogue is reluctant to tender. "--(p. 4) of cover