When her late husband's foul traitorous ways endanger her life, lay Evelyn Renshaw is glad to hire a strong and handsome footman, even if this particular footman has no sense of his proper place in the household. More important is that she protects herself from the ominous Frenchman who knows too much about her dead husband, and seems to be looking for some sort of flag. She knows nothing about the particular item he seeks, only that he intends to kill her, or worse if she fails to obey his demand.

Captain Sinjon Rutherford is willing to do whatever it takes to clear his good name; pose as a footman in a dead traitors home, bow and scrape to the beautiful Lady of the house, even seduce her dead husband's secrets from her. As he learns more about her, though he has difficulty believing in her guilt. She may be as much a victim of circumstance as himself.

Lecia Cornwall has brought us a delightful historical with a clever twist within THE PRICE OF TEMPTATION. How can a truly tonnish lady let her desires for a servant overwhelm her sensibilities? There is plenty of suspense as well all tied up in the passionate and forbidden love that may cost Evelyn and Sinjon anything from their place in society to their very lives.