Lady Adelaide Frampton was doomed to a life on the shelf from childhood. An ugly duckling who never became a swan, Adelaide was forced to watch the glittering aristocracy from the edge of ballrooms—a truth that made her an expert in human behavior, and a professional Cyrano. Adelaide knows all the ways to woo a man—something that might have won her a match if she weren’t painfully shy…but is exceedingly useful when women in desperate situations are looking to entice eligible bachelors to marriage. When a young woman in trouble approaches the Hell’s Belles for help winning an unwinnable duke, Adelaide leaps to help.