SummaryFrom the national bestselling author of Touch Me
and Tempt Me comes a spellbinding romance of secrets
and scandal, and the heartbreaking risks of true love...
Jared, Viscount Ravenswood, has no choice but to honor the
deathbed wish of his ailing servant. All she asks is that
Jared introduce her soon-to-be orphaned daughter to the
notorious and reclusive Calantha, Duchess of Clairborne. No
ordinary request, for this is no ordinary child. She is, in
fact, the key to the Duchess's most private secrets, and to
Jared's own pastone that has branded him Lord Beast
among the ton.
But when the Viscount meets the Duchess, he finds not the
pitiless dowager he expected, but a lovely and wary
angelsurvivor of a brutal marriage left now with only
her roses and the breathtaking mystery that is her life. For
Jared, to solve it is to fall in love, to make her believe
in the impossible, and to follow the promise that comes with
the most intimate whisper of all... Take me...
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