The Earl of Marsden--has lived his life by his own rules...until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package--a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress...Panicking, he turns to a woman for help...Clarissa Taylor, village spinster, matron-in-training, and Mars's greatest critic.. Clarissa desperately wishes to not to be beholden to anyone...Her plan is simple--to use what the intolerable earl will pay her to become her own woman. It all sounds so straightforward until the threat of scandal sends her and the one man she can't abide toward...marriage