After puclically humiliating a suitor Grace Armitage is sent from the Ton is disgrace and resolves never to marry. But when she finds a sketchbook of nude studies and discovers the artist is her hostess's eldest son, Lord Ranulf Charing, she finds herself dangerously attracted to exactly the sort of rogue she has sworn to avoid.
But nothing is as it seems. Lord Ranulf's life is a facade and he is being blackmailed over his late brother's debts. But just as the darkly restless Ranulf finally finds love, the full fury of his nemesis is unleashed and to protect Celeste he faces a stark choice between duty and true love.

But Ranulf underestimates Celeste's stubborn resolve to clear his name and in so doing he places the woman heloves in mortal danger...