London 1717: Corwyn Tyler Chase, a passionate, intelligent, beautiful innocent fresh from the wilds of the West Country is being hotly pursued by the city's most vicious and well-related rake hell.Devon Black, the Earl of Kettering, has just taken his place as heir to his father's lands after murdering the Uncle who stole them. Living in London, among the Ton, he can almost forget the twenty years he lived as a prisoner and then a pirate in the West Indies, years that left him an unforgiving, brutal and brilliant man.When Corwyn embroils Black in a lovers triangle that costs him everything yet again, he vows she will pay the price with her body and soul.