Lord Ferdinand Dudley is accustomed to finding what he desires…that is, until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to state his rightful property, and it is met with the bewitching fury of Lady Viola Thornhill. She won’t cede him the house she phone calls her very own. He refuses to leave. So the contest begins. Every day beneath the same roof brings its share of disappointment…and temptation. But Viola knows it is a battle she cannot afford to lose. Marriage is out of the issue, and she’ll end up being no man’s mistress even as Dudley’s unnerving existence threatens to melt her take care of. Against his better common sense, Lord Ferdinand Dudley is definitely beguiled. This maddening beauty offers stirred him as no girl had before. And today he is destined and determined to make her his own.