Tempting Harriet — Mary Balogh

The Second Seduction

She had resisted scandalous temptation once before. That was six years ago, but it seemed like six centuries. She was no longer young, innocent, and impoverished Miss Harriet Pope. She was Lady Harriet Wingham, beautiful and wealthy widow of a kindly, if elderly, baron. And the libertine lord who had almost taken her virtue now bore the title of Duke of Tenby.

Tenby, though, was as breathtakingly handsome and as amorously expert as ever. He still wanted Harriet not as a wife but as a mistress -- and Harriet could not keep from wanting him. She had no desire once, but denial was so much more difficult the second time around, and Harriet wondered if she could safely surrender her body without giving her heart to this man who clearly had none...

Hero: Archibald Vinney, Duke of Tenby
Heroine: Lady Harriet Pope-Wingham