When Glenys robbed the reclusive Earl of Ravensby, she never expected to steal his heart instead of his gold. Now the earl's prisoner, the charming thief must prove her innocence -- and her love.
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Ashton Cordell, Earl of Ravensby, is a marked man. For six years, someone has tried to kill him. He has withdrawn to his clifftop estate, surrounded by bodyguards and suspicious of everyone. Many people have reason to wish him dead, including the members of his own family....
Glenys Shea has escaped a tedious life at a School for Young Ladies in the company of her ramshackle brother and sickly father. When the men decide to hold up a nobleman's carriage, her father is shot down. Glenys becomes the prisoner of the Earl of Ravensby, a man colder than ice. He is convinced she can lead him to whoever hired the Sheas to kill him. She has no idea what he's talking about....
Proving her innocence to the man that killed her father is not easy. But Glenys is drawn to the lonely, beleaguered earl and sets herself to rescue him. With cunning plots, she makes him laugh for the first time in years and enjoy simple pleasures he'd forgot.
Then the villain strikes again, and a good man is killed. Ravensby determines to expose himself to the murderer and risk everything to catch him.
Glenys proposes an outrageous plan that takes them both to London, where she masquerades as Ravensby's affianced bride. She is nearly murdered at Carlton House. The villain can reach even into King George IV's palatial home.
After that, things get worse. MUCH worse.