In the months since her husband’s death, Cecilia, Lady
Walrafen, has hidden her emptiness by devoting herself to
a charity mission for the poor women of London’s slums.
But when the man who once tried to ruin her reputation
turns up at the Nazareth Society, Cecilia is outraged.
The womanizing Lord Delacourt is vain, vindictive, and
merciless. But he’s a man who honors his wagers. And when
one of them goes wrong, landing him in a charity mission
for prostitutes, he comes face-to face with the young
woman whose reputation he once nearly ruined—and whose
lips he has never forgotten. Soon, however, evil is
stalking the women of the Nazareth Society, and only
Delacourt knows how to guard Cecilia from the consequences
of her own principles.