Reckless Need — Scarlett Scott

Book three in the Heart's Temptation series.

Once a promising artist, Heath, the Duke of Devonshire, has been living a passionless life of penance after losing the woman he loved. But temptation arrives in the form of a beautiful widow he shouldn't desire. The moment he scoops the delectable Tia, Lady Stokey, into his arms at a country house party, he wants her in his bed, and he'll stop at nothing to have her there.

Tia never expected the staid duke to carry her to her chamber and undo half her buttons while kissing her senseless, but he does. From that day on, she's as drawn to their forbidden desire as Heath.

As they're swept up in a decadent maze of seduction, old passions and pain return, threatening to tear them apart. But Heath is determined to keep Tia where she belongs, in his arms and in his bedchamber, forever.