The Curious Countess by Judith Lynne

Alara has one night to find the love of her life.
She’s as British as bluebells and rain. But now the Continental wars are over, her mother plans a life for Alara in the Ottoman Empire where she’ll never see Britain again.
With one night of freedom, Alara’s future depends on finding a British husband and forgetting the curious boy she’s waited for all her life.
Lord Harman is heir to a political dynasty.
But hates intrigue and compromise. He’d trade it all for one more lazy summer day with the girl who inspired his mind and his heart.
At a wild Christmas revel he meets her again, still challenging him every step of the way and now very much a woman. When a dangerous mission falls into his lap, he must make an absolute choice: spend his last night with her playing pirate – or fulfill his destiny.
The Curious Countess is a standalone novella of about 100 pages, but readers of The Clandestine Countess may rejoice to see Lord Harman have a love story of his own.