Second Season — Therese Alderton

If there was one man lovely Roxanne Winston never wanted to lay eyes upon it was the notorious Duke of Rutledge, the man responsible for her brother's death. To her dismay, however, it was that very gentleman who turned up on her doorstep one dark night -- badly wounded from an encounter with highwaymen...

Scandal or no, she could not in all good conscience turn him away. Yet she never expected her pulse to race under his mocking scrutiny, nor her voice to quiver in response to his outrageous comments -- designed, she had no doubt, to shake her composure. But at two and twenty, she was no green girl to fall victim to a rake's practiced charms! Far from it: she was a woman. With a woman's weaknesses -- and a woman's secret desires....

Hero: Henry Malverne, Duke of Rutledge
Heroine: Roxanne Winston