Nell Latham's life is hard enough – then a mysterious stranger with vengeance on his mind throws her into the path of the Carlows, a family with enough dangerous secrets of their own without the added complication of Nell and Marcus Carlow developing a tempestuous attraction for each other. At gunpoint.

Nell, a milliner by trade, is obviously ineligible as a bride for Marcus, Viscount Stanegate. But their fraught courtship becomes lethally dangerous, for Nell's true identity is a threat to both her and Marcus's family and is the catalyst for revelations of scandal, murder and treachery