Nothing should be sweeter than going home for Christmas—yet Arabella Drake, Countess of March, dreads the journey every December. This year’s trip threatens to be the worst yet. From broken carriage wheels to a sudden snowstorm, overcrowded inns to a run-in with thieves, everything is conspiring to throw her together with the man she hates above all others: her husband.

Theo, Earl of March, is in holiday hell. It was one thing to be forced into marriage with Arabella, whose shy kisses and innocent passion ruined him for anyone else—it’s quite another to be forced to share a carriage with the maddening woman all the way from London to Yorkshire. But with every fiery argument and heated glance, it is becoming harder for Theo to resist the temptation to do something incredibly stupid—like falling in love with his own wife.