Lifestyle for Victoria Lacey ought to be ideal. And it is-perfectly boring. Agree to marry a lord who has yet to inspire an individual, solitary tingle?

Why, obviously. Smile as though this isn’t the thousandth time he’s stated hounds and hunting? It’s all within a day’s work for the oh-so-proper sister from the Duke of Blackmore. Certainly no-one would suspect her secret desiring heart-racing, head-spinning interest. Except, perhaps, a dark stranger . on a terrace . . . at a ball where she should about The Madness of Viscount Atherbourne definitely not be kissing a guy she has only met.

Hatred, not love, drives Lucien Wyatt, Viscount Atherbourne, to tempt the ‘Rose of Blackmore’ into sin. Her brother did unthinkable damage to Lucien’s family members, and he intends to precise revenge in the only path left to him: Ruining his enemy’s sister, then stealing her from Blackmore by causing her his personal.

As Lucien carries out his ruthless plan, tutoring his new bride in the finer points of satisfaction, her surrender leaves him breathless . . . and soon a new obsession awakens-a scandalous fascination with his amazing wife.

Contains mature themes.