He's spent years scandalizing society.
Now, this rake must change his ways.
Society's most infamous scoundrel, Daniel Winterbourne, the Earl of
Montfort, has been promised a small fortune if he can relinquish his
wayward, carousing lifestyle. And behaving means he must also help find
a respectable companion for his youngest sister - someone who will guide
her and whom she can emulate. However, Daniel knows no such woman. But
when he encounters a childhood friend, Daniel believes she may just be
the answer to all of his problems.
Having been secretly humiliated by an unscrupulous blackguard years
earlier, Miss Daphne Smith dreams of finding work at Ladies of Hope, an
institution that provides an education for disabled women. With her
sordid past and a disfigured leg, few opportunities arise for a woman
such as she. Knowing Daniel's history, she wishes to avoid him, but
working for his sister is exactly the stepping stone she needs.
Their attraction intensifies as Daniel and Daphne grow closer, preparing
his sister for the London Season. But Daniel must resist his desire for
a woman tarnished by scandal while Daphne is reminded of the boy she
once knew. Can society's most notorious rake redeem his reputation and
become the man Daphne deserves?
