Facing ruinous debt, Juliana Seabright's father leaves her at the Duke of Hereford’s door with one order—secure the marriage proposal she once turned down flat. But Juliana's shy seduction of the "Corsair Duke" is interrupted when her family’s scandal breaks and Connell Beaumont is not a man to toy with. . .
Connell may have cast her out of his life but when circumstances land Juliana at his country estate, the duke discovers this bookish beauty is not so easily banished from his heart. A chasm separates a duke from the daughter of a pariah but neither can deny the passion that draws them . . .