Two independent souls, fighting to resist a deepening passion. When Beatrice Hennessey sets out to confront Lord Coldhurst, the notorious rogue who killed her brother in a duel, her intent is to save her family from destitution.But while greeting his ship, Beatrice takes a tumble into the Thames - only to be fished out by a pair of strong masculine arms, arms that belong to Sebastian Hawkestone, Lord Coldhurst himself. Beatrice makes Sebastian a proposition, one that he may find impossible to refuse...