"Miss Zoe Armstrong is beautiful, charming rich--and utterly unmarriageable. So, while she may be the 'ton's' most sparkling diamond, her choice of husbands looks more like a list of London's most unsavory fortune hunters. Since a true-love marriage seems impossible, Zoe has accepted--no, embraced--her role as society's most incomparable flirt and mischiefmaker... until in one reckless, vulnerable moment, her future is shattered. Stuart Rowland, the brooding Marquess of Mercer, has been part of Zoe 's extended family since she was a child. As dark and cynical as Zoe is lively, Mercer has always known they would be the worst possible match... until his scapegrace brother Robert does the unthinkable, and winds up betrothed to Zoe..."--Page 4 of cover.