. . . a naughty bachelor
. . . a curious spinster
. . . an impossible attraction.
Ellen Drake is a spinster who works as a paid lady's companion. Years earlier, scandal ripped her family apart, so she's all alone in the world. She must support herself, and she struggles to keep her reputation above reproach, to hide her connection to a sordid past.
She likes her employer very much and enjoys her position, but her life is boring and dull, and she occasionally bristles at the restraints her tedious existence places on her. It would be so wonderful if something exciting happened.
Alex Marshall is London's most notorious rake. He's about to become engaged to Ellen's employer. Once he's married, he intends to be faithful, but in the meantime, he can't see any reason to settle down. He plans to revel and romp with every available woman until the dreaded day his engagement is officially announced.
When Ellen catches him in a decadent tryst, she's outraged and suffering from the worst urge to make him behave. She pleads with him to reform, hoping to encourage better conduct, but with little success. He's terribly attracted to her, and he turns the tables on her, offering to stop his womanizing is she agrees to become his paramour. She's shocked and . . . tempted.
Will she? Can she? Dare she grab for the sort of adventure of which she's always dreamed?
Sparks erupt in this sexy, funny, fast-paced tale of love, desire, and betrayal as Cheryl Holt turns up the heat with her hottest novel yet.
