Mary Barnes has always accepted the way her life has turned out, so what that her stepmother treats her no better than a servant at least she has a roof over her head and a man who says he wants to marry her but she just needs to wait a little longer until the time is right. When her half sister's future husband shows up her world is turned upside down and she realizes she deserves so much more than what she has had to endure, a new side of her nature is about to show itself.

Jordan Winthrop, Viscount Redvers is a known libertine who will one day be an Earl but needs to wed for money and it would be a bonus to anger his father even further. So, when the opportunity comes to wed a woman who holds no title what better way to get his revenge on his father. What he was not expecting was the lovely sister Mary; she draws him to her like no other woman ever has. Can he have the best of both world's one woman's money and the other's body?

As much as Mary fights the attraction with Jordan he is not about to give up getting her into his bed. What neither

Book Summary

Secret desires. Forbidden fruit. Untapped passion.

No sooner does Mary Barnes, yet to be touched by a man, drink a secret elixir than a handsome and mysterious stranger walks into her life. But Mary wonders if the scoundrel's growing passion is the result of just a love tonic, or the real thing.