Thus begins a sizzling courtship where two wary hearts are about to be undone by the most scandalous passion of all: glorious, all-consuming love.From the Paperback edition. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. For Gervase, only the marriage bed will do, but Morgan simply will not have him. Publication date 2004 Topics Nobility, Manners and customs, Nobility Publisher. There is only one thing standing in his way: Morgan, who has achieved the impossible-she's melted his coolly guarded heart. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself.until one night of shocking intimacy erupts in a scandal that could make Gervase's vengeance all the sweeter. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent's most notorious rake. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. Meet the Bedwyns-six brothers and sisters-men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality.Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction.where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal.and where Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can-or should-resist.Young.

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