Reforming Harriet

Lady Harriet Worthington is as unconventional as they come. She runs a bakery, a mill, a household — and her own life. Having weathered one philandering husband, she's sworn never to wed again.Elias Westwood, partner with her late husband in a West Indies spice company, is at his wit's end. Lady Harriet has been selling off shares of his business — and distributing the proceeds to her neighbors for necessities like cows, sheep, food, and other provisions — until he is nearly ruined.He plans to outmaneuver the annoyingly independent widow and win back his shares, but Elias's extraordinary gifts of smell and taste — so useful in judging fine spices — prove his Achilles's heel. Lady Harriet's meat pies leave him weak in the knees. Her garlic-buttered prawns enchant. Her Turkish trifle intoxicates. Elias cannot resist her culinary creations — or, it turns out, her feminine charms.When she maneuvers him into masquerading as her fiancé for the Season, he certainly never plans on falling...