**I AM SLOWLY EDITING THIS!!!** WARNING: This is in no way a fairy tale. Kylie's been living life as simply as possible with her childhood friends and no worries except perhaps the next school assignment. All she knows is that she is perfectly happy where she is right now and doesn't plan on changing that any moment. But when her parents announce their "fantastic" plan to move to a small town in California, Kylie is devastated. Little does she know that this small town holds big secrets. And those secrets would very soon enter her life, making it more interesting than she could ever imagine. ~~Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Watty Awards 2011!!! I couldn't have made it without you all~~ ***ALL NAMES AND SIMILARITIES ARE PURELY COINCIDENTAL***

Emily Weatherly was no gently-bred London debutante. In fact, she had thrived on the streets of London, a pickpocket and urchin, until Fate threw her lot in with the Weatherly's, a prestigious family who unselfishly raised her as their own and protect her from a heinous secret that could destroy her life. Despite this, she is never truly accepted as a proper lady, always scorned and ridiculed, and she vows to do her adopted family proud by making a respectable match with a gentleman of some rank and notoriety. Sebastian Weatherly harbors a secret that could thwart his carefully constructed bachelorhood. Indiscriminate rake, scoundrel and downright rogue, he has had to endure Emily Weatherly's presence for as long as he could remember. Now that she intends to make a respectable match, which he knows cannot ever be him as he is not respectable, he can hardly ignore the bitter jealousy residing in his heart as he is forced to watch Emily courted by various beaus.