Balogh's most celebrated standalone. Kit Butler's arranged pretend-courtship of Lauren Edgeworth, which becomes real. Balogh gives both characters complex inner lives and genuine wounds; the romance is built on mutual respect and recognition rather than fireworks, which makes it strangely more moving. The best argument for the "marriage of convenience" trope.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.