Captivating rascal Tristan Northwood appears to have everything: an ancient name, a commendable inheritance, a pleasant wife, and a child he adores. Women love him, males admire him, and it seems there is nothing he can’t perform, whether it’s seducing a society wife or earning a carriage competition. Little does Society believe that the name means nothing to him, the lot of money is within his father’s controlling hands, and he does not have any desire for his wife except a very distant friendship. Society bores him, and he requires dares because he just feels alive when he’s dancing on the edge… until his wife’s brother comes home from the wars.

Decorated war hero Major Charles Mountjoy jerks Tris out of his despair by motivating feelings of passion Tris had never suspected himself with the capacity of. Nearly as terrifying simply because those emotions for Charles will be the signals Charles might come back his love—or, even worse, that Charles sees the man Tristan continues to be trying so valiantly to cover up from the globe.