Dowager Countess Barbara's two unhappy marriages
taught her one lesson--never, ever again! To stop her
ambitious father marrying her off once more, she'll do
anything. Even ruin herself so thoroughly that no
groom will have her! And the quickest way to do that?
Secure the disapproval of Xavier, Duke of Derbridge. He's
enormously influential and infamously straitlaced. If only winning
his censure wasn't quite so fun, and his looks weren't quite so intoxicating...
Barbara's steely resolve soon wavers. Because successfully disgracing herself
would mean alienating the infuriatingly upright duke she craves--forever!