At twenty-seven, Evangeline Hartwell bought a single night of passion with Lord Adrian Blackwood, a notorious rake with a mountain of debt. She paid him ten thousand pounds, he disappeared with the dawn, and Evangeline was left with a bittersweet memory and a secret that would forever change her life.

Now, seven years later, Evangeline has built a new life for herself and her precocious daughter. But her carefully constructed world begins to crumble when she accepts a marriage proposal from the kind and steady Earl of Claremont. Her new fiancé has a beautiful daughter, Louisa, who is betrothed to the Marquess of Crestwood—none other than Lord Adrian Blackwood himself.

Suddenly, Evangeline is face-to-face with the one man who can expose her truth and shatter her new life. Adrian is about to uncover a secret that will threaten his own standing and ignite a passion that refuses to be denied, no matter the impossibility.

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