He needed a fiancée. She needed a reason to say yes. Neither of them needed to fall in love. The arrangement is simple. His inheritance requires proof of an imminent engagement. She requires financial security for her family. Six weeks at Pemberley, a formal announcement before the requisite witnesses, and then — freedom. Clean, uncomplicated, entirely businesslike. She should have known better than to trust a plan that clean. Set against the grounds of Pemberley in a Derbyshire winter, A Necessary Deception is the slow burn Pride & Prejudice variation you will read in one sitting and think about for weeks; a story about two people who agree to a lie and discover, inconveniently and irrevocably, that the truth is better. A Necessary Deception is for readers who believe that the best love stories are the ones where both people have to earn it — and that the earning is, in the end, the whole point.