Offer

The award-winning author of The Reunion continues her sexy Regency romance series with a novel of one woman's fall from saint to sinner.Lucy Betancourt's future looks bleak. The daughter of an ailing vicar in a village with no eligible bachelors, her only hope is to find employment as a governess or companion. As she helps her childhood friend, the new Duchess of Worley, through her pregnancy, the ever-practical Lucy makes her plans. But lifein the way of the dashing Bex Brantwoodhas something else in store for Lucy...Upon meeting the duke's cousin Bex, Lucy offers herself up to him. But Bex is no family man looking for a governess. And Lucy is not exactly mistress material. Still, the misunderstanding ends in a kiss neither can forget... Bex finds the proper vicar's daughter and her most improper proposal endlessly amusingand attractive. But, saddled with debt, he's in no position to keep a woman, much less marry one, which is what a woman like Lucy deserves. Little does he know that even with her reputation at stake, Lucy will take the biggest gamble of her life by following her heartstraight into his arms...