The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

Robin Loxleigh and his sister Marianne are the darlings of the London Season. Their good looks and easy charm hide the fact that both are hunting for a rich match, and nobody thinks to look any deeper.

Robin's latest target is Alice Fenwick and her inheritance. Her guardian is her uncle, Sir John Hartlebury, a baronet with a reputation for having no graces at all. Good looks do not move him, and neither does charm. He reads Robin correctly from the start.

The two men keep being thrown into each other's company, and open hostility slowly wears down into understanding. Real feeling follows, which neither of them planned for. Sir John is the grump, Robin the glib and sunny one.

The m/m Regency romance follows an enemies-to-lovers path and opens the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series. Robin has spent years cheating and lying, and letting people down for money. The question is whether a man like that can earn an honest happy ending, or believe in one once he has it.