Poor spinster Elspeth Quinn's relatives bring her to Bath for a coming-out Season, but it is a bit painful to know she was only invited to provide a dowdy contrast to her cousin Caroline. Yet when Elspeth unexpectedly attracts the interest of the most eligible bachelor of the moment, she decides it is the outside of enough. Julian Thorpe might claim he'd rather spend time with his prize pigs than chatting up marriage-minded mamas, but all the world knows he is on the verge of proposing to her cousin. So why does he seek her out on moonlit terraces and kiss her senseless? The bespectacled bluestocking soon realizes her fuzzy image of the man is fast becoming a very clear fantasy of passion.