New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwells delicious Logical Mans Guide to Dangerous Women series continues with this provocative romance between a reprobate earl and a sensible spinster who agree to marry under scandalous circumstances.Perfect for fans of Sophie Jordan and Sabrina Jeffries.Lesson #1: A man, even titled and handsome, cannot be careless forever.The Earl of Marsdenbetter known as Mars to allhas lived his life by his own rulesuntil he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny packagea baby girl,hisdaughter cast off by his ex-mistress.Mars wont let his child be cast adrift, except he doesnt know the first thing about babies.Panicking, he turns to a woman for help. Not just any woman, but Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Marss greatest critic. Still, who better to tend a motherless child than a woman who was abandoned as a babe herself?Lesson #2:Life always plays the upper handespecially when it comes to love.Clarissa desperately wishes to not to be beholden to anyone. She has spent a lifetime being pitied by the village. Her plan is simpleto use what the intolerable earl will pay her to become her own woman. It all sounds so straightforward until the threat of scandal sends her and the one man she cant abide toward . . .marriage?Mars and Clarissa are about to learn the greatest lesson of allthat sparks always fly when the iron ishot.
