Haywood

Katherine Sophia Danby, a country-bred lady with a penchant for mischief, inherited all the vitality and health not prevalent in her family line, and stands to inherit much more-even the grand family seat, Haywood Hall, and all its wealth-when she becomes the last living member of the noble clan. But on the death of her father, she learns that if Haywood is to become hers, she must marry The Marquess of Brentonworth, a man she has despised since she bled his nose when she was eight-years-old and has happily not seen since, or forfeit Haywood to her distant cousin, Mr. Colm Danby, a devoted gamester and opportunist if there ever was one. To the discontent and alarm of her guardian and relatives, when the Marquess of Brentonworth shows up on her stoop, invited to Haywood by her well-meaning but meddling great-aunt, Katherine hatches a plan to circumvent her father's will and delay the impossible choice before her. Risking not only pride, but bodily injury at every turn, the duty-bound Marquess works to flush out the root of Katherine's eternal hatred and win her good favour-a daunting task, when her temper is in constant threat of igniting his own. But when another gentleman arrives in Yorkshire, the imbroglio reaches new heights and Katherine must decide quickly which, if any of her suitors, she cannot live without.