Necessary Deception. The Branwell Chronicles, #8

Charles Wraglain balances two lives: one privileged and carefree, and the other fraught with family difficulties. The last thing he wants is more complications, but when he comes upon what seems to be a highway robbery, he does the gentlemanly thing and rescues the damsel in distress. But the damsel, Evangeline Harbrow, is anything but grateful, for Charles has unwittingly ruined her elopement to Gretna Green.
Sending him packing, she sets out on her own to evade her relations and reunite with her lover. But one mortifying misjudgment after another lands Evangeline right back into Charles's orbit, and in real need of rescue. Will her humbling circumstances at last persuade her to accept his assistance-and perhaps more?