HE COULD SAVE HER... With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage – even if it is passionless. She saves her deepest desires for her novel, wherein a handsome lord with dark powers seduces her. But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the attentions of the reclusive Earl of Black... whose blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as described in her book. Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl of Black. Yet he pursues her, with inexplicable knowledge of her past and kisses that consume her. If only the earl could tell Isabella the truth. With very real, and treacherous, thieves endangering her life, Black needs to protect Isabella from the people she trusts the most...