Proper, reserved Francesca detests chaotic London and one of its most
infamous inhabitants: her birth mother, the notorious courtesan Madame
Aphrodite. Lovingly raised by the devoted Lady Greentree, she's content
to remain in Yorkshire, far from the scandalous parent whose life and
profession shock . . . yet intrigue her. But a dark, dangerous stranger
she rescues on the moors is awakening a most improper desire--causing
Francesca to question whether she is more her mother's daughter than she
ever wished to be.
When Sebastian Thorne agrees to protect Aphrodite's estranged daughter
from a dire threat emerging from her past, the fallen lord is
unexpectedly seduced by Francesca's beauty. But a vigilante living on
the shadowy edge of society has little hope to own such a prize--and
unless he reclaims his abandoned title and lost honor, Sebastian will
never get close enough to the bewitching lady to save her life . . . or
win her passion.