The Duke of Ashby has a deadline. He needs to be married in nine days, but he's stuck in Scotland, of all places. With no other acceptable candidates readily available, he supposes Prudence Merriweather will do.Prudence doesn't know what to make of the duke's mad offer, but assumes it will be hastily withdrawn as soon as he learns about her family. To say the daughter of two paranormal-fighting assassins (and one of them a foreigner!) would fail spectacularly in London is a bit of an understatement. Pru refuses him, fully expecting that she will soon forget all about that one time the duke with the untamable hair asked to marry her. Except Ashby turns out to be more persistent than she thought. Pru knows how to face down nine-headed slag beasts, but she has no idea how to take on love.
The book was fast paced, hardly any build up. Emotional turmoil just was. Storyline was average until ***SPOILERS*** some very comedic demons show up. Literally. H and h meet, they don't want to fall in love, they start to fall in love, a catastrophic event (demons that offer candy and yell at their Nana), and H and h figure it all out. In like a week.