Horatia Sheridan has been hopelessly in love with Lucien, her brother’s best friend, since he rescued her in the broken remains of her parents’ wrecked carriage. His status as London’s most notorious rakehell doesn’t frighten her, at under his veneer of great authority she’s glimpsed a guy whose wicked desires inspire her personal.

Lucien, Marquess of Rochester, provides deliberately nurtured a popularity for debauchery that makes every matchmaking mother of the lot quake with fear. However, the devotion he owes Horatia’s brother is put to the check when a vintage enemy from the League threatens Horatia’s existence. With Christmas sketching near, he sweeps her apart to his country estate, where he can’t withstand granting her one wish-to share his bed and his center. But sinister makes are lurking, awaiting the perfect moment to exact their revenge by destroying not only whatever happiness Lucien might find in Horatia’s hands but the lives of those they love.

Contains mature themes.