Gillie Trewlove has learned just what a stranger’s kindness often means, having been abandoned on a doorstep like a baby and raised by the girl who present her there. Therefore, when suddenly confronted with a spirit in want at her door-or the alleyway by her tavern-Gillie doesn’t think twice. But he’s no infant. He’s a grievously injured, distractingly attractive gentleman who doesn’t belong in Whitechapel, much less recuperating in Gillie’s bed .

Being left in the altar is humiliating; being rescued from thugs with a woman-albeit a courageous and beautiful one-is the pièce de résistance towards the Duke of Thornley’s extraordinarily poor day. After medical him back from the brink, Gillie agrees to greatly help him comb London’s darker corners for his wayward bride-to-be. But every second together is usually edged with desire and has Thorne rethinking his choice of wife. However Gillie knows the aristocracy could not acknowledge a duchess delivered in sin. Thorne, however, is determined to prove to her that no obstacle is definitely insurmountable whenever a duke enjoys a woman.