BOOK #1

Clever, independent Aphrodite de Smith earns a
meager living, scratching out verses to accompany
boxes of bonbons that gentlemen send to the ladies
they're courting. However lonely this life may be, it allows her to
hide from her scandalous past. But what happens when one of
those gentlemen decides that the poetess is a beauty ripe for
wooing? Forthright Yorkshire farmer Sir Hugo Brinsmead comes to London to
find a bride among the beau monde. Except the woman who takes his fancy
isn't a society belle. Instead, she works at a fashionable sweet shop.
Not to mention she's as full of secrets as his broad acres are full of
prize sheep. Aphrodite might reject the handsome baronet's
proposals - for his own good!- but she can't resist the searing desire
that flares between them. When she offers Hugo a temporary affair,
he agrees against his better judgment. He wants a wife, not a
mistress. Yet even as their passion blazes, shadows from the past
threaten their union. Can the gallant baronet convince his
headstrong lady to defy the world and seize a happy ending?