An Improbable Scheme: Courting the Unconventional, Book 1

When a masked highwaywoman holds up your coach in the dead of night, the last thing you expect is to encounter her again at your aunt's dinner table—but Regency England has a wicked sense of humor.

Lady Elsbeth Caldwell is running out of options. Convinced her stepfather conceals something deeply sinister beneath his charming exterior, she takes increasingly reckless measures to expose him, including staging a nighttime robbery of a passing coach. It seems like the perfect plan—until the carriage belongs to Niles Drayton, Earl of Westcott, a man whose razor-sharp wit and irritating composure make him entirely too difficult to fool.

Niles has no interest in his aunt's matchmaking schemes and even less patience for complications. Yet the opinionated, sharp-tongued Lady Elsbeth who appears at his family's social gathering is far too familiar—and far too captivating—for his comfort. Determined to protect his younger sister from whatever trouble this unconventional woman carries with her, he inserts himself squarely into Elsbeth's dangerous investigation.

What begins as mutual suspicion and sparring barbs slowly transforms into something neither of them anticipated. As the mystery surrounding Elsbeth's stepfather grows darker and more threatening, Niles finds himself less concerned with keeping distance and more desperate to keep her safe.

Clean, witty, and brimming with romantic tension, *An Improbable Scheme* proves that the most dangerous thing a guarded heart can encounter isn't a criminal—it's the wrong person asking the right questions.