How to Cross a Marquess: 3 Ashford, Jane

A marriage of convenience between two people who think they've got each other figured out — until proximity reveals everything they got wrong. When a sharp-tongued heiress and a reserved marquess strike a practical arrangement, neither expects the other to be interesting. But trapped together in close quarters, forced conversations turn into real ones, and what began as mutual irritation slowly shifts into something far more inconvenient: actual feeling. Jane Ashford writes Regency romance with emotional intelligence and characters who feel like adults — they talk, they negotiate, they surprise themselves. This is the third in the Ashford series, but stands alone perfectly. For readers who want their historical romance grounded in character rather than contrivance, with banter that earns the heat and a slow burn that pays off.