She fell from a tower straight into his arms. Then she accidentally married him.

They loathe each other on sight until a scandalous mistake binds them in the most inconvenient way possible. Now society's most promising gentleman is tied to the Season's least eligible spinster, and neither of them intends to fall in love.

When seventeen-year-old Viola Leigh tumbles out of a crumbling ruin, the last thing she expects is to land in the arms of the most irritatingly handsome, impossibly proper man she's ever met. Sebastian Fane is everything she is not: starched, serious, and absolutely horrified by her.

So naturally, a mix-up at the altar leaves them accidentally wed.

Nine years later, Sebastian has risen to become one of Parliament's most powerful men, his reputation spotless, his ambitions sky-high. And Viola? She's been keeping secrets. Scandalous ones. The kind that could destroy everything he's built.

They've spent nearly a decade pretending their marriage doesn't exist. But when circumstances force them under the same roof in London, old feelings resurface, new complications arise, and a disaster of Viola's own making threatens to upend both their carefully constructed lives.

Now these two stubborn souls must finally confront what they've been running from: each other. And the inconvenient truth that the accidental marriage neither of them wanted might just be the love story of a lifetime.

A witty, sweet, closed-door, enemies-to-lovers, second-chance Regency romance featuring a chaotic heroine with a dangerous secret, her impossibly buttoned-up husband, and the glorious disaster that happens when the past refuses to stay buried.