Lady Jessica Carville, mysteriously abandoned six years earlier by the only man she ever loved, has found fulfillment and success as a dealer of rare antiquities. On the night of her triumph at Christie’s auction house, her nemesis shows up and asks for her help.

Lord Duran faces death at the hands of a master assassin unless he recovers a priceless artifact rumored to have been smuggled into England. He’s lost none of his charm, and while Jessica doesn’t buy into his ridiculous story, she takes refuge from temptation at her father’s estate. As if that could stop a handsome, desperate, manipulative rogue.