A wealthy earl proposes
marriage to a poor widow during the Christmas season.
Leander Knollis, Earl of Charrington
does not believe in love. Passion causes more trouble than its worth. It makes men fools and women victims. Both would be better off to marry for practical reasons. The earl is determined to make a marriage of convience with a sensible woman.
Judith Rossiter is a widow with two
children. Her first husband was a poet who only
published one small book of poems. The impractical man wrote dozens of odes to Judith, his ‘Angel’, but refused to sell them. The proceeds from her husband’s only published work have paid the bills for a almost a year, but the royalties are dwindling. Then the Earl comes calling.
He wants a ready made family, she needs to feed her children and keep a roof over her head. The Earl is wealthy, young and handsome; besides, the kids like him. So she accepts the earl’s proposal.
Leander and Judith are about to discover that love and marriage are very convenient.