For too much time Miss Emily Parr has been subject to the whims of her indebted uncle as well as the lecherous advances of his repulsive business partner. Her intend to be done with dominating men forever is easy: find herself a sort husband who’ll keep her to her books.

It seems an easy enough plan, until she actually is unexpectedly abducted by an incorrigible duke who hides a wounded heart behind flashing green eyes.

Godric St. Laurent, Duke of Essex, spends countless nights at the membership along with his four best friends and relishes the rakish status society has branded him with. He has no programs to marry anytime soon-if ever. But when he kidnaps an embezzler’s niece, the challenging debutante’s blend of sweetness and sharp tongue makes him desperate for the one thing he swears he by no means wanted: love.

Yet because they surrender to enthusiasm, danger lurks in Godric’s shadowed history, looking forward to him to drop his guard-and to rob him of the woman he can’t live without.