They call him many names, but angelic isn’t one of these.

Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad,and dangerous to know. No respectable woman could have anything regarding the”Bane and Blight from the Ballisters,” and he wants nothing to do withrespectable ladies. He’s determined to keep performing what he does best-sin andsin again-and all’s heading swimmingly … until the day a store door starts and shewalks in.

She’s as well intelligent to fall for the worst man in the world.

Jessica Trent is a determined little woman, and she’s going to drag herimbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. If savinghim-and with him her family and future-means taking on the devil himself, shewon’t back off. The trouble is that the devil in question is so shockinglyirresistible that the person who needs conserving most is Jessica herself.