Lieutenant Colonel Ezra Hart finds himself in urgent need of a wife-inheriting the viscountcy relies on it. But while he's dutifully spinning the season's jewels around society's ballrooms, he finds himself desiring the one woman he shouldn't covet... French émigrée Seraphine Mounier is as beguiling as she is vivacious, but Ezra knows she has no interest in the marriage mart. What's worse, she represents the very enemy he fought at Waterloo. As an undeniable connection sparks, resisting Seraphine seems one battle Ezra's destined to lose!