Star Berkley had never seen the likes of Sir Edward. He was so damned arrogant. He was so damned fashionable and so damned insolent.

Added to this, was the fact that he was the most handsome man she had ever come across in all her twenty years of life!

Sir Edward, for his part, could do without the pert country airs of a chit like Miss Berkley. She was impish, plain-spoken and obviously not his sort, which, was just as well for it seemed she had stolen the heart of his closest friend.

And then—Sir Edward stumbled onto a most sordid secret: the Berkleys estate teetered on ruination, and brother and sister were being brutally blackmailed by a vile den of thieves.

Sir Edward meant to save them if only Star would allow him and he was a determined man, determined that she would allow him—everything.