"Are you afraid?"
"Yes," she replied in a soft voice. "But I love the way you
frighten me."
Lily Chadwick has spent her life playing by society's rules.
But when an unscrupulous moneylender snatches her off the
street and puts her up for auction at a pleasure house, she
finds herself in the possession of a man who makes her
breathless with terror and impossible yearning...
Though the reclusive Earl of Harte claimed Lily with the
highest bid, he hides a painful secret-one that has kept him
from knowing the pleasure of a lover's touch. Even the
barest brush of skin brings him physical pain, and he's
spent his life keeping the world at arms' length. But
there's something about Lily that maddens him, bewitches
him, compels him...and drives him toward the one woman brave
and kind enough to seek to heal his troubled heart.