The Disastrous Courtship 0f Lady Grimvale (Historical Regency Romance)

'Love is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls...'Miss Imogen Bryton loathes the moment she steps on English soil.Raised in Africa, she has nothing to look forward to when her brother announces that they are returning to their ancestral home in England. Α country that seems as foreign as the people that reside in it.Elijah Keaton, Earl of Grimvale, couldn't have been in more dire straits. Left to manage his late father's mounting debts, there's only one way to keep his Earldom from collapsing: find and marry a rich heiress. That is until he sets eyes upon a breathtaking lady he has never seen before.Thrown into a storm where nothing is dictated by them, Imogen and Elijah find solace in the one thing that seems to illuminate an otherwise bleak future: each other.Mysterious nighttime visitors keep knocking on his door, and Elijah receives an ominous message: he's living on borrowed time. A mission has been bestowed upon Imogen; a mission that was placed on her shoulders before she was even born...