


When he offered to set her up in his London town house, love was the last thing on his mind. She questioned his every move, breached his secrets, touched his soul.

Her blue eyes were the sort a man could drown in–were it not for her impudence. Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own good. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. In the melee, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot. She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In her most captivating novel to date, Mary Balogh, the premier writer of Regency romance, invites you into a world of scandal and seduction, of glittering high society and intrigue, as an arrogant duke does the unthinkable–he falls in love with his mistress. Mary Balogh reaches deep and touches the heart.”–Joan Johnston, New York Times bestselling author of The Cowboy Yet as she gets past his devilish façade and sees the noble heart within, she knows the greatest jeopardy of all, a passion that drives her to risk everything on one perfect month with the improper gentleman who thinks that love is for fools.“A stunningly good work of romantic fiction. Surely there is nothing more perilous than being the lover of such a man. Jane tries to pretend it’s strictly business, an arrangement she’s been forced to accept in order to conceal a dangerous secret. When he offers to set her up in his London town house, love is the last thing on his mind. She questions his every move, breaches his secrets, touches his soul. Her blue eyes are the sort a man could drown in-were it not for her impudence. Jane Ingleby is far too bold for her own good. To his astonishment, Tresham finds himself hiring the servant as his nurse. In the melée, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, is shot. She races onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In this captivating novel, Mary Balogh, the premier writer of Regency romance, invites you into a world of scandal and seduction, of glittering high society and intrigue, as an arrogant duke does the unthinkable-he falls in love with his mistress.
