With his reckless charm and lust for danger, Viscount Thorne
is one of England's most elusive bachelors--and member of a
secret league of protectors known as the Guardians. To
thwart his father's matchmaking schemes, Thorne asks an
alluring artist to pose as his betrothed.
Burned once by desire, Diana Sheridan swears off love. But
to secure her cousin's place in society, she agrees to
Thorne's charade. Then scandal brews, and Thorne insists on
going through with the marriage. When Diana refuses,
resisting his smoldering passion, the rakish lord wages a
dazzling campaign of seduction.
Meanwhile, danger threatens their very lives. Yet Thorne
realizes the greater danger is to his heart. For he never
expected to get caught in a matrimonial snare of his own
making--or imagined their pretense of a love match would
become so tantalizingly real.