A Midsummer Night's masquerade at her family's country home presents the Honorable Nancy Lovelace with the perfect opportunity for revenge against the man who ruined her first London season-a man she's known since childhood, a man she'd once thought she loved. Simon Crayding's newly inherited properties are in disarray, and, thanks to his bad behavior, he's now known to society as the Swilling Duke. When an old school chum invites him for a Midsummer Night's party, he jumps at the chance to lick his wounds among friends... as well as apologize to his friend's sister, Nancy, because apparently, he'd done something to hurt her, he just didn't remember what. It soon becomes clear that Nancy will not easily forgive. Never one to resist a challenge-or a beautiful woman-Simon vows to find out why. As the night unfolds and passions rise, will Simon be well and truly punished, or will Nancy be caught in her own game?