Lady Cassandra Montrose arrives at her former lover's home seriously ill and unable to care for her illegitimate daughter. She's a fallen woman who's been cast out by her relatives. Cassandra has no other options left but to beg Vincent to take their infant daughter. She remembers the wicked night spent in bliss with the charismatic rake and she prays he will take pity on her. It was her one fall from grace, before she entered into a loveless union.

Lord Vincent Sinclair lies to no woman. His lovers know he only engages in sensuous love affairs; they are fleeting and meaningless encounters. Vincent does not want intimacy or love since his brother's betrayal with the woman he believed his soul mate. Vincent has hardened his heart, masked his emotions and become a heartless philander. There was one woman who had the possibility of touching his frozen heart, but he ran from Cassandra before he could give her the chance.

Now Vincent finds himself in a quandary. Honor his word to his father and his fiancée, or atone for his sins. Complicating matters is his daughter, who instantly steals his heart. His solution is simple. Vincent will have the best of both worlds as he asks Cassandra to become his mistress as soon as she recovers. It seems so simple, so why does Vincent feel so unsatisfied?

Grab a handful of tissue for Ms. MacLean's latest tale. She hooks readers within the first 50 pages as they read the heart-wrenching pleading by the ill heroine for her daughter's welfare. Completing the superb story is Vincent's slow and realistic evolvement from an unfeeling rake into a man willing to sacrifice everything for love.

Book Summary

He told me he would treat my heart with great care. He was lying of course, for it was all a very clever, skillful seduction...

The night I met Lord Vincent Sinclair, son of the Duke of Pembroke, was the night I lost control. I never imagined that I, Cassandra Montrose, could engage in such wicked, wanton behavior with a man I hardly knew. But in that fateful moment, alone in his coach, the passion I felt for him was undeniable, even though I knew that after my surrender I was unlikely to ever see my lover again.

Until a fateful secret brought me to his door...

I always believed my pride would prevent me from becoming any man's mistress - especially a rogue like Vincent, who cares for nothing but his inheritance. Yet I have very good reason to remain in his life. If only he did not tempt me so...