Winner of the Golden Quill and Barclay Awards for Best Novella, The Accidental Duchess, set in Victorian London and Scotland, features alpha Highlanders, history, humor, a chocolate cake recipe and romance.Destitute governess Rachael O'Leary finds shelter during a blizzard in a shuttered London townhouse, knowing nothing of its owner or why it stands empty. Needing a few weeks of peace in order to sort out his financial problems and secure his childhood Highland home, Connor Kenroe, the Duke of Kilgory, returns to his closed London townhouse after a long sojourn in Egypt to find a lovely slip of a woman asleep in his bed. When his shocked mother and ex-fiancee arrive unexpectedly at the bedroom door, he spouts the first lie that comes to mind, trapping himself and his feisty trespasser in a complicated web of lies they now have to unravel.This novella was originally published in the anthology How to Marry a Duke.