Lily St. Claire was adopted off the vile streets of London by the theatrical St. Clair family, saved from grinding poverty and from a man who would stop at nothing to further his criminal network. Years later she has grown into the quiet, sensible sister of the family, fully loved but always a bit separate from the other more creative and flamboyant members.

All St Claires learn to despise the Huntington family for wrongs done to an ancestress. Even though Lily feels a bit of an outsider in her adoptive family, she loves and honors them enough to attempt to cut short the seedling of a relationship to Lord Aiden Huntington even though she finds him to be the most attractive man she has ever encountered and it is obvious that he returns her regard. During a passionate encounter, it becomes clear the skills learned from her mother (an accomplished flagellator) who worked in a 'French' brothel for those with outré tastes mesh with the needs of this beautiful man.

Lord Aiden feels like a changeling. His soul does not fit with the life he was born into. A secret passion for writing plays is not what is expected of the second son of a duke. At first his obsession with the quiet yet beautiful and mysterious Lily St. Claire seems a capital way to distract himself but as he grows to know her and to uncover her secrets it becomes clear he must have her as part of his life.

Laurel McKee has written a slightly kinky take on historical romance. A meaty plot is enhanced by the use of characters beyond the ton and incorporates elements true to the time period. ONE NAUGHTY NIGHT is book one in the Scandalous St. Claires series. Book two, Two Sinful Secrets will be published December, 2012.