The Rake's Revenge

Cornelia Faraday considered herself all but betrothed to St.John Drimmer, her father's gentle curate, when she was whisked off to fashionable Tynings to make her social debut. — Cornelia cared nothing for the beau monde, and even less for some of its proud, self-indulgent young men, especially the imperiously cold earl, Marcus Drax. A disgrace he was, if the wags were right about his lustful liaison with Lady Esterbrook.

But now the unthinkable was happening, as the earl's suave wit and rakish good looks threatened to melt Cornelia's indifference. As she struggled to resist the charm that had been the downfall of so many before her, her world turned topsy-turvy.

That is, until Cornelia learned of a long-buried secret that revealed something unknown in the earl's haunted eyes...