About the book: 2012 / Lady Poppy Smith-Barnes does not want to get married and, in order to get rid of obsessive admirers, invents a groom for herself! For example, let it be the Duke Drummond, perfect in his splendor - what’s bad? Everything is going just fine, until Poppy shows up on the threshold... the charming gray-eyed handsome Nicholas, aka Duke Drummond. Moreover, it is real, not fictitious. And it requires a very real engagement, and soon a wedding. Moreover, the young lady does not even suspect that Nicholas is a secret agent of the British Crown, and meeting him promises dizzying adventures and ardent, crazy passion…