Miss Eliza Cade is a lady in waiting.
And waiting. Because of a foolish mistake in her youth, she's not allowed "out" in Society until her three older sisters are wed. Banished to the schoolroom over an innocent lie to protect a friend, she must watch her siblings court eligible gentlemen while she languishes in the shadows.
But while she's trying to be good, she keeps bumping elbows—and, more distressingly, lips— with notorious rake Harry Wright. Determined to mind her manners, she soon finds herself trading sharp quips over scattered sheet music and succumbing to an illicit waltz in a quiet drawing room.
Cut off for absorbing a friend's gaming debts, Harry possesses no fortune and even less shame. He claims he is far too wicked to ever make an honorable suitor, though his tender caresses under a garden trellis tell an entirely different tale. Every moment she spends with him, she risks complete ruin.
The sensual passions he stirs in her are so wrong . . . but Eliza just can't resist Mr. Wright.