The first book in the Carsington Family series from award-winning
romance author Loretta Chase!
Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn't love women quite so
much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from
civilization: Derbyshire--in winter!--where he hopes to kill two birds
with one stone: avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his
life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight
into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as
intelligent, obstinate, and devious as he--and maddeningly irresistible.
Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and
aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble. The last thing she needs
is a stunningly attractive, oversensitive and over-bright aristocrat
reminding her she has a heart--not to mention a body he claims is so
unstylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.
Could the situation be any worse? And why does something that seems so
wrong feel so very wonderful?