Description
Emmeline Ward has no illusions about love.
As a merchant’s daughter with a dwindling fortune, she knows exactly what marriage is: security, survival . . . and sacrifice.
So when she captures the attention of Lord Edmund Langford, London’s most eligible and most impeccable gentleman, she does everything right.
He is everything a woman should want. Honourable. Steady. Safe.
And utterly incapable of setting her heart alight.
But just as her future begins to settle into perfect, suffocating certainty . . . his brother arrives.
Marcus Langford is everything Edmund is not, reckless, infuriating, and dangerously perceptive. A man who sees too much . . . and makes her feel things she has spent her entire life denying.
A glance becomes tension. A moment becomes temptation. And soon, Emmeline is caught between: the man she should choose and the man she cannot seem to resist.
In a world where reputation is everything, one wrong step could destroy her.
But the greatest danger of all?
Realizing she may never be able to go back to a life that feels . . . empty.










