After years in Italy, honing his skills in the delicious art of seduction, Ashe returns to London?s high-class establishments. There, his scandalous ways are abruptly ended by his father?s death. To claim what is rightfully his, Ashe must do the inconceivable ? take a wife! But who could possibly even think about marrying such a man? Certainly not the lovely Genevra Ralston. After all, she?d be finished in polite society. Wouldn?t she?