When a ruse ignites desire, only the truth can set them free.

Aife has loved her childhood friend for as long as she can remember. Desperate to make him see her as more than the girl he left behind, she devises a daring plan—and turns to the one man she trusts most: his brother, Torsten.

Orphaned as a child, Captain John Nylander has never known a real home. Now he is ready to leave the dangers of his past behind and put down the roots he has always longed for. The only thing standing in his way is a lanky aristocratic lady who is more at home on the farm than in the ballroom. And she has secrets…

Who is this man?

The Duke of Thanet may have hired Meriel Shelby as a governess to his six-year-old son, but there is something…different about the man standing before her today. He seems to study her with an intensity she never noticed before, and he is certainly more charming than the last time they met. Was there always an alluring glint in his dark eyes?