Book excerpt: When an innocent young lady’s elopement goes wrong, a notorious rake comes to her rescue in this Regency romance. England, 1820. Miss Silver Meredith is beautiful, innocent, and just eighteen years old. She’s also vulnerable to the worst sort of scandal after an attempted elopement goes wrong. Her reputation and her future depend on the silence of one man . . . Adam, Marquess of Rockingham, is a rake from the most notorious of noble families. He possesses a dangerous combination of ruthlessness and charm. He’s also still smarting about a graceless rejection from the only woman to whom he’s ever proposed marriage, the only woman he’s ever loved—Silver Meredith. And now Silver’s fate is in Adam’s hands. . . .