A numbers-minded lady. A calculating marquess. A courtship built on clues, not compliments.

Miss Matilda Blakewood delights in balancing accounts and exposing inconsistencies. So when a local toll-gate fortune appears to have vanished into thin air, she takes up her quill - and the scent of something criminal. With her family’s honour at stake, she is determined to uncover the truth.

Lord Ainsworth, wealthy, exacting, and secretly steering The Clarion newspaper, seeks the same villains. Their paths collide over tepid lemonade at Almack’s and again in dusty ledgers, suspicious toll records, and moonlit country lanes. What begins as an inconvenient alliance deepens into reluctant admiration - and then something rather more troublesome.

As danger draws near and profiteers grow bold, Matilda and Ainsworth must decide whether caution will shield them, or destroy their fragile trust. In a world where appearances deceive and reputations tremble, can love truly be accounted for?

Matilda and the Marquess is the fifth volume in the Heirs and Graces series - closed-door Regency romances brimming with wit, intrigue, and emotionally equal partnerships. Perfect for readers who treasure slow-burning courtship, sharp banter, and women who solve problems with intellect and resolve.

Secure your copy forthwith, dear reader, and lose yourself in a tale where wit sparks passion and justice leads straight to the heart.

Tropes you'll love:

• Intellectual heroine
• Reluctant allies to lovers
• Slow burn romance
• Hidden identity (newspaper subplot)
• Mystery/investigation
• Grumpy/stoic marquess
• Courtship of equals
• Banter as foreplay