Bryn Talgarth, Earl of Caradoc, was 16 and tended his mindless father during a lingering and agonizing death from syphilis. Resolved to take no risks with his own health and sanity, Bryn becomes the human version of the legendary unicorn, seeking a virgin to love and marry. Twenty years later, he had not found that woman.

Claire Easton, an impoverished vicar’s daughter, has her own problems. To see her brothers well educated and launched into productive lives, she desperately needs to find a source of funds. Enter the earl, still on a hunt of his own.