A terrible lapse of judgement, resulting in near-ruin has made Charlotte Hayward retreat behind a wall of perfect manners. Daughter of the Marquess of Lithby, she’s beautiful, elegant, rich - and dying on the inside. Darius Carsington, on the other hand, has never met an impulse he’s tried to resist: earthy, brilliant, virile, he’s a force of nature - and completely irresistible to women.