How to Marry a Marquis

by Julia Quinn Book 2 in the Agents of the Crown series.

First published 1999

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Elizabeth Hotchkiss supports her younger siblings by working as companion to Lady Danbury. After finding a guide entitled How to Marry a Marquis, she secretly practises its advice on the estate’s new manager, unaware that he is James Sidwell, Marquis of Riverdale, working undercover to identify a blackmailer.

James’s concealed rank and Elizabeth’s financial desperation turn a comic experiment in courtship into a test of trust. Their romance links household service, aristocratic disguise and an investigation conducted within Lady Danbury’s country estate.