Book excerpt: Caught in a midnight tryst! Can a reclusive and distrustful lord, scarred by betrayal and raised without love, learn to trust a pampered society beauty who seems to have the whole world at her elegantly shod feet? When Alexander Forthin, Earl of Calvercombe, clashes with Persephone Seaborne it seems not…. But a series of mysterious disappearances links their two families, forcing the embittered soldier and the toast of St. James into an unlikely alliance—one that starts the gossips' tongues wagging…. Especially after they are caught in a secret midnight tryst!