Lord Beaufort McCandless, the Marquess of Kingsford, has lived much of
his life kept away from proper Society. Born with mismatched eyes,
Beau's parents thought him the product of a gypsy curse. Hidden away at
his family's ancestral home along the Suffolk coast, Beau has grown up
nearly alone. Beautiful but penniless, Lady Dinah Crestfield is on her
way to become governess to the unruly children of a duke in the wilds of
Norfolk. The daughter of a baron, she was once pampered and celebrated
for miles around until her father died in debtor's prison over unpaid
gambling debts. When her carriage overturns near the entrance to the
notoriously reclusive Marquess of Kingsford's home, Dinah is forced to
either seek shelter with the so-called "cursed marquess" or freeze to
death. Can she swallow her fear long enough to spend a few nights
beneath the man's roof and is she brave enough to see what lies beneath
the man's appearance?