Hanayome Ha Okaidoku / Original Title: BRIDE by CONTRACT (Harlequin SP Bunko)

[Machine Translation] As the daughter of the venerable Countess Haugil, Morva grew up beautiful and disciplined by her old-fashioned grandmother. Her mother, however, is disgusted by her stifling lifestyle and leaves the castle, and her father, a shell of a man, dies, leaving her to fend for herself. Moreover, her father's death reveals a shocking truth. Due to certain circumstances at the time of her birth, Morva's brother is ineligible to succeed to the title of Count, and the entire estate will be inherited by a distant relative who comes from a foreign land. In order to welcome the new Count Troy into the family, the grandmother has a plan: she will give Morva to him as a bride and everything will be all right.

由緒正しく続くハウギル伯爵家の令嬢として、モーバは昔気質の祖母に厳しく躾けられ、美しく成長した。ところがモーバの母親は息苦しい暮らしを嫌って城を出ていき、抜け殻同然になった父親も、彼女を残して息を引き取ってしまう。しかも、この父の死によって衝撃的な事実が明らかになる。出生時のある事情からモーバの兄には伯爵継承の資格はなく、全財産は異国の地からやってくる遠縁の男が継ぐというのだ。新伯爵トロイを迎え入れるにあたり、祖母は策略を巡らせた―モーバを彼の花嫁として差し出せば、すべてはまるく収まると。