Be careful what you wish for?Lord Havelock is in need of a wife. But with no time for a society wedding and no stomach for girlish fripperies his options are limited. So, with help from his friends, he draws up a list of qualities he does desire in a wife?When orphaned Mary Carpenter discovers her handsome new husband?s list she?s hurt ? and incensed. If he thinks she?ll sit meekly by, be ?compliant? and ?a mouse?, he?s got another think coming! Is it perhaps time for Mary to make a list of her own, and change the rules of their relationship for ever? ?