A spellbinding novel about a headstrong young beauty and her aristocratic guardian who are torn between passion and propriety.

He was her guardian, absentee landlord of her neglected life—until Megan Kinkead returned to Maam’s Cross Court, determined to make Justin Brant, the sixth Earl of Weston, notice her. She finally commanded his attention when she burst into his room and caught him stark naked in the tub. Suddenly she knew a woman’s hunger—and a woman’s needs....

When had the scrawny brat from hell become a fiery, raven-haired, violet-eyed temptress? Justin told himself she was still a child as she offered him a seductive yet innocent kiss. He tried to remind himself that he was her guardian, her protector. But the desire that blazed between them ignited a love neither had ever known before. Then he told her he was married....