The classic New York Times bestselling tale of romance and intrigue in Regency England . . . Dear Reader, Arielle Leslie is a sixteen-year-old girl forced to wed Paisley Cochrane, a sadistic old man who abuses her. When he dies, she believes herself free. But she's not. Burke Drummond, Earl of Ravensworth--a young man she'd worshipped three years before--is home from the wars, and he wants her. When he catches her, he's in for an appalling surprise...