A Chance Encounter (Thorndike Press Large Print Candlelight Series)

Rating:
Summary: A bit predictable, but interesting.
Review: Lord Humphery almost runs over Miss Chadwick while drunk and driving recklessly on a fateful night.

Miss Chadwick is orphaned, penniless and homeless while the drunk Lord Humpehery is trying to avoid marrying Miss Ratcliffe - a marriage that was arranged by their parents when they were children. Lord Humphery and Miss Chadwick's answer to their combined predicament is for them to marry each other.

The new Lady Humphery is faced with the daunting tasks of facing society and killing all gossip about the newly-weds. She also has to face the beautiful, witty , highly vicious and scheming Miss Ratcliffe not to mention that she has to win over her in-laws who are scheming right along Miss Ratcliffe's side.

To complicate matters more, she finds herself falling in love with her own husband - a man who insists that she is a 'proper' wife and not a real woman..