How to Woo a Reluctant Lady / Sabrina Jeffries / 345 pages / R. T. Reviewer's Choice Award

Oh my goodness!  Do not listen to this audio book when anyone else is in the room!  It is quite graphic and, to me, embarrassing...not embarrassing enough that I stopped listening, however.  Minerva has always loved Miles although she refuses to admit it, even to herself.  She devises a plan to thwart her grandmother's  decree that she must marry if she is to inherit.  She places an ad advertising that she will conduct interviews for a husband.  She is sure that her grandmother will be chagrined, cancel the interviews, and allow the inheritance.  Minerva will then be free to write her books without further interference.  Miles shows up for the interviews and Minerva and Miles decide to pretend to want to marry.  Again, Minerva is certain her grandmother will oppose the marriage because of Miles's reputation.  She does not.  Miles is secretly a spy and Minerva is drawn into his duplicitous life and he into hers.