The Counterfeit Countess

Miss Elsa Winters has resigned herself to spinsterhood… until her brother's scandalous friend offers an impossible solution. Lady Sasha Blackwell, the ton's most notorious rake, needs to escape her mother's matchmaking schemes. Elsa needs freedom from Lord Ashford's suffocating proposal. A marriage of convenience between two women seems like the perfect arrangement: separate lives, mutual protection, no expectations. But their wedding night changes everything when only one bed forces an intimacy neither anticipated. Elsa has harbored secret feelings for Sasha for six years, convinced she'd remain forever invisible. Sasha, terrified of vulnerability, never expected her convenient wife to unravel every defense she'd built. What begins as a practical arrangement ignites into dangerous attraction. Stolen glances become heated touches. Forced proximity reveals that Elsa isn't the quiet wallflower Sasha dismissed…. she's brilliant, sharp-tongued, and devastatingly passionate. And Sasha isn't the emotionally unavailable rake Elsa imagined… she's wounded, desperate for connection, and falling harder every day. But when Elsa's mother demands an annulment and society threatens to destroy them both, Sasha's fear returns with crushing force. Can she choose love over safety? Will Elsa's patience survive another betrayal? And when forbidden lovecollides with brutal reality, will their slow burn passion be enough to overcome the obstacles threatening to tear them apart? In a world determined to keep them apart, can two women rewrite the rules of love or will fear steal their only chance at happiness?