Since returning from Waterloo, Lord Hawksmere has been a bad-tempered recluse. Having sworn never to burden a wife with his dour disposition, Hawk plans to spend the Season helping his impoverished sister. But her annoyingly cheerful friend Miss Maggie Mackenzie is a distinct distraction!

Whisky heiress Maggie prefers brewing alcohol to being wooed. Or that’s what she tells herself from her place on the shelf! Hawk is imposing, interfering… And yet as their heated animosity melts into something even hotter will the self-proclaimed spinster admit he’s also infuriatingly attractive?