A shocking betrayal . Riches. Power. An ancient heritage of pride. The Earl of Druridge wished only for an heir. Therefore when he learned that his wife was carrying another man’s child, he was filled with a thirst for vengeance. But he wasn’t the main one who triggered Katherine’s loss of life. Or was he? To his horror, he remembers nothing of that dreadful evening, when their last stunning confrontation ended in scorching flame and cold blood. A forbidden love . . . Rachel McTavish, the stunning daughter of the about Through the Smoke coal miner, knows something about the fire that took Woman Katherine’s existence. In top secret, the strong-willed girl strikes a bargain with the eager earl: he must send his physician to help her dying mother or he may go directly to the scaffold – as well as the devil. The earl agrees, but Rachel continues to be uncertain that her revelation will be adequate to save lots of him when a lot of wish him dead. Passionately attracted to the nobleman, despite all of the doubt and mystery that shroud him, Rachel wonders if he really can be considered a murderer. Or if he is the only guy who’ll ever very own her heart . . .