Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content).Jane, the Honorable Miss Lumley, is in a bind. She can't help boasting about her friendship with author Mr. Michael Girard, whose sweeping new series of adventurous tales set on the high seas have fetched a high price at a Nottingham book auction.Darkly debonair bookseller Lachlan, Lord Stathmore, finds Girard's stories improbable but knows they will sell. When Jane's impassioned defense wins him over, he asks her to arrange a meeting with the mysterious Mr. Girard.But how can she, when she herself is the stories' scribe and she is forced to keep the real seafarer's identity secret? A Christmas cotillion offers a solution. But while men's clothes and a mask might be enough to hide her identity, will her double masquerade be enough to conceal her rising passion?