She vowed never to marry, and he vowed never to marry her!

Serena Fenton was anything but serene, though she was eager to leave the London Marriage Mart for a quiet life in the country with her brother, the vicar.

But the vicar longed to see her settled with his dear friend Marcus Browne, Earl of Granville. If any man could handle his headstrong but beautiful sister, Marcus could.

The vicar had not foreseen that Serena would be quite so bad or Marcus quite so good. The match seemed so utterly hopeless that there was only one thing left to do. Was it permissible for a vicar to play Cupid?