With Due Discretion

Eleanor Fairleigh arrives in London with no intention of causing a stir.
She wishes only to observe, to understand, and-if possible-not to be paraded before the loudest and most persistent suitors of the Season. Unfortunately, she has been placed under the care of Lady Cordelia Ashcroft, a friend of her grandmother's as respectable as she is dangerously brilliant, and firmly convinced that the best way to protect a young lady is to present her-carefully, and with impeccable timing.

As the Ton sets itself in motion with balls, intimate invitations, and an embarrassing number of suddenly attentive gentlemen, Eleanor navigates the Season with courtesy, intelligence, and a remarkable talent for being underestimated. Lady Cordelia, meanwhile, pretends to be in earnest search of the perfect husband for her protégée, while thoroughly enjoying every step of the process.

Observing it all with outward composure is Julian, Viscount Ravenscroft: irreproachable gentleman, reluctant social strategist, and entirely convinced that he feels no interest whatsoever in Lady Cordelia's young charge. After all, esteem is not love. Attention is not jealousy. And irritation is certainly not emotional involvement.

Or is it?

Between rules obeyed only in appearance, conversations far too intelligent to be innocent, and a Season that tests even the steadiest of characters, With Due Discretion tells the story of how one may fall in love slowly, properly... and in the most intense way possible: by following the rules of the Ton to the letter.