The Belle of Winchester

Miss Lily Ellsworth has spent her Seasons collecting suitors and has settled on Mr. Gilbert Wright, rich, well-connected, and dashing, as the one she'll eventually choose. But Gilbert's cousin, the new curate Simon Kenner, has an alarming habit of seeing through her flirtatious performances when every other gentleman of her acquaintance is content to think her an angel.

Simon, an eloquent preacher bound for a good living in the Church of England, keeps telling himself that a woman who sets the neighborhood talking every time she steps into the garden is not the wife he needs. But when Gilbert finally makes his bid for Lily's hand, Simon has to admit that his interest in her has gone well past a priest's concern for a parishioner.

A clean Regency romance and the second book in the Ellsworth Assortment series.