After suffering under his tyrannical and abusive father, Donald, the Marquess of Campbell has decided the best way for him to avoid turning out like him is to never marry and never have children. Cam is happy devoting himself to his duties in Parliament so when he's called back to his estate near the Scottish border to retrieve his new ward, his first thought is to marry her off as soon as possible so he can proceed to go about his business. With her beauty and large fortune, it should be a piece of cake.

Lady Bridget MacDuff is furious at having a guardian. She is eager to be rid of him and chastises herself for noticing how handsome he is. She just wants the fortune she's not set to inherit for another 18 months; she has time sensitive plans to use it to open a home for abused women. She certainly has no plans to ever marry herself.

Cam doesn't have the same satisfied feeling he usually does upon returning to his life in London, likely because his three best friends have all married now. But he knows he's not marriage material, no matter how possessive he's growing to feel about Bridget. He needs to get her settled so he offers her a compromise: he'll help her set up her women's home if she'll seriously consider the men she's meeting for marriage. She agrees, surprised to find in Cam a supporter of her efforts to help abused women, though not as surprised as Cam is by his own reaction to seeing other men drooling over Bridget.

These two have an immediate spark but do get to know each other before falling in love with a bit of a dramatic conclusion. Cam was very unlikable for me at first with his high-handedness and assumptions about women and every time he redeemed himself by proving to be sweet and caring, he'd go on to do something else that reminded me of why I didn't like him. He proved himself to be rather a hypocrite near the end and he messed things up so royally it looked like a truly happy ending wasn't possible. Luckily for him, Bridget was much more forgiving that I would've been and Cam realized he was being an idiot in time to fix it. I enjoyed this read overall, but definitely not one of my favorite heroes.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.