A rugged and ruined naval officer comes to claim his bride in an
unforgettable tale of love, revenge and redemption from the national
bestselling author of Marry in Scandal.
Lady Rose Rutherford--rebel, heiress, and exasperated target of the
town's hungry bachelors--has a plan to gain the freedom she so
desperately desires: she will enter into a marriage of convenience with
the biggest prize on the London marriage mart.
There's just one problem: the fierce-looking man who crashes her wedding
to the Duke of Everingham -- Thomas Beresford, the young naval officer
she fell in love with and secretly married when she was still a
schoolgirl. Thought to have died four years ago he's returned, a cold,
hard stranger with one driving purpose--revenge.
Embittered by betrayal and hungry for vengeance, Thomas will stop at
nothing to reclaim his rightful place, even if that means using
Rose--and her fortune--to do it. But Rose never did follow the rules,
and as she takes matters into her own unpredictable hands, Thomas finds
himself in an unexpected and infuriating predicament: he's falling in
love with his wife....