[Heroines on Horseback 01] • Miss Spencer Rides Astride

William Archwood, heir to an earldom and affianced to a woman he can't stand, needs to disappear before his betrothal becomes a marriage.

Grainne Spencer, the unladylike daughter of a Master of Hounds on an Irish estate, has been running her father's stables to her own liking for years, and she isn't about to give that up.

But when a certain Mr. Archer is employed by her father to take her place when she is married, Miss Spencer decides to take her fate into her own hands. Suspecting her imminent removal from the stable-yard to the drawing room, Grainne plots with an amorous gypsy to escape the constraints of society for good... if she can just slip from under the prying eyes of that nosey Mr. Archer.

Amongst the green pastures and fine blood-horses of Ireland, Mr. Archer and Miss Spencer must fight against the fates others have planned for them -- and the undeniable attraction that has sparked between them.