A Piqued Bride Miss Kate Frazer has spent most of her life trying to avoid the taint of her mother's scandalous reputation. To please her father, she stifles her naturally high spirits to become a model of propriety. But when her efforts are rewarded with a suitor who cares only for her dowry-and leaves her waiting at the altar on her wedding day-Kate determines that from now on, she will live as she chooses. Her first adventure will be a trip to London under an assumed name to enjoy the city's every daring delight. And woe to anyone who stands in her way-particularly her fiancé A Perplexed Groom Lucius Calfield wasn't looking forward to wedlock with the tediously suitable Kate Frazer, yet he is nonetheless chagrined when a violent storm makes him late for the ceremony. But embarrassment turns to astonishment when he finds that his normally biddable fiancée isn't waiting for him at the church. In fact, she's vanished entirely! Determined to solve the mystery of his missing bride, Lucius traces her to London, where he encounters a Kate who is unaccountably changed-and irresistibly enchanting. And although winning the heart of his erstwhile intended may prove a harder job than winning her hand, Lucius can't imagine a sweeter victory.