Impassioned — Darcy Burke

Society's most exclusive invitation... Welcome to the Phoenix Club, where London's most audacious, disreputable, and intriguing ladies and gentlemen find scandal, redemption, and second chances. In nearly two years of marriage, Sabrina Westbrook has barely spoken to her husband and shared a bed even less. Both activities would require they actually live together. As it is, the Earl of Aldington attends to his seat in the House of Commons, while she and her crippling social anxiety tend to his country house and gardens. Their arrangement is quite civilized, and their letters are painfully polite. Their twice-yearly visits are...awkward. But, if Sabrina can muster the necessary courage, all of that is about to change. Starting tonight. Heir to a dukedom, Constantine Westbrook knows his duty: to country, to family, and to the shy, retiring wife whose beauty stole his breath the moment they met. Whose arousing, enticing body he's never seen in the light of day. Or any light at all. However, there's something different about the woman who shows up in London unannounced. For the first time in their marriage, Sabrina has a request. No, a demand. But wanting and having are two different things. And to give Sabrina her heart's desire, they'll both need a few lessons in love...