Defying the Earl

Enjoy a fun, flirty, guardian-and-ward, beauty and the beast romp from a New York Times bestselling author!

Miss Matilda Dodd refuses to be any man's property. She's a month shy of her majority, and cannot wait to live life on her own terms. Rather than meet her unwanted new guardian as instructed, she attends a ball and comes kiss-to-kiss with an adorably befuddled handsome lord instead. But the grumpy, sexy stranger turns out to be the new guardian, hell-bent on marrying her to someone els...