As London society agreed, no man could match Lord Kendal’s cool elegance nor rival his skills as a diplomat. His icy calm was a notorious as his untouchable heart. Few women had illusions of finding love in his arms.

The happily widowed Celia Greer was not one of them. Young, impetuous and determined, she sets herself to win the heart of a man she’d idolized from a distance since before her forced marriage. When she learns of his troubled past, she vows that nothing will stand in her way.