A woman cast out of the only home she’s ever known finds herself the new ward of a darkly handsome duke, and caught up in a dangerous mystery.

At the deathbed wish of the man who’d raised her as his child, Meredith Montague travels to London in hopes that the man’s nephew, the Duke of Tiverton, can help her navigate the London season and find a husband. But when she collides—literally—with Tiverton and is spellbound by him, she fears that the man in charge of her destiny might be a danger to her virtue and her heart. Things only get more complicated when she witnesses a murder, and the only person who believes her is Tiverton.

The last thing Darius St. John, the Duke of Tiverton, needs is a pretty young lady underfoot — especially a lady he is duty bound not to seduce, thanks to his late uncle’s request that Darius take Meredith as his ward and find her a husband. If keeping his hands off his beautiful ward wasn’t hard enough, he finds himself in close quarters with her as they work together to solve a murder and catch the killer before he can get away. Will his desire for Meredith put her life in more danger? Or will surrendering to his heart be the best way to keep them both safe?

Heat Level: Hot

Three rules to avoid falling in love with a pirate:

1. Never sleep in the cozy bed in his cabin
2. Never cling to his hard, muscled body in a storm
3. Never let him call you his treasure

Adrian Greyville has the wind at his back, a ship at his command, and a future of his own making. What else could a man ask for? His parents would say he needed a wife, his sister would say he needed direction, but his elder brother, a once infamous pirate himself, would quite agree that the sea is his mistress, and the only direction he needs.

That is until he finds himself rescuing a woman from certain death on the Barbary coast. What’s a man to do with a woman who acts as haughty and regal as an ice princess, yet melts in his arms the moment he whispers sweet words and steals a kiss?

Catherine Montclair isn’t a princess, but she is the daughter of a duke who captured the attention of a prince. Finding herself being sold after her ship was captured by blood-thirsty pirates is a nightmare beyond imagining. Until a handsome piratical stranger with kindness in his eyes and kisses that taste of honeyed dreams, rescues her. She can’t be tempted, she can’t surrender to the passion he evokes within her because she’s betrothed to another. She must resist, she must escape and return to her family… before she loses her heart to a pirate.