Onnagirai No Hoto Hakushaku / Original Title: the DEFIANT DEBUTANTE (Harlequin History Karu Special)

[Machine Translation] The beautiful, dark-haired Count Alex is a renowned prodigal, but he is cold toward women because of his mother's infidelity and his father's torment. One day, his beloved uncle appears with a young girl. The young girl, Angelina, has eyes like jewels, and is apparently the last surviving daughter of a former lover, who had moved to the continent after his uncle's refusal to marry her. She has lived in poverty and is now learning manners and etiquette. Alex, suspecting that his uncle may be swindled out of his fortune, decides to get rid of the girl by marrying her off to someone else as soon as possible. But Angelina insists, "I don't want to marry her. I don't want to get married. Then I will seduce the impudent girl myself.

美しき黒髪の伯爵アレックスは名うての放蕩者だが、不貞をかさねて父を苦しめた母のせいで、女性には冷淡だった。そんな彼のもとに、ある日、敬愛する伯父が若い娘を伴い現れた。宝石のような瞳を持つそのアンジェリーナという名の娘は、かつて伯父との結婚を反対され大陸へ渡った、昔の恋人の忘れ形見らしい。貧困にあえいできた彼女に、礼儀や作法はこれから学ばせるという。アレックスは、伯父が財産をだまし取られるのではないかと疑い、この娘を早いところ誰かに嫁がせて、厄介払いしようと考える。ところがアンジェリーナは言い切った。「結婚なんてしたくありません」面白い。ならば生意気な小娘を、このわたしが誘惑してやろう。