Rake Thomas Boulton no sooner decides to abstain from pleasures of the flesh than he meets the most arousing woman he's ever encountered. Widow Olivia Trent is clever, confident...and determined to beat him at the game of seduction. She challenges him to play sensual games until one of them pleads to be bedded. Thomas is sure he will soon have Olivia at his mercy—or will he be the one forced to beg?