One night with the Earl... Leads to an unexpected consequence! Nine years ago Eloise shared a passionate tryst with a stranger at a masquerade ball. Seeing Marcus, Earl of Malbrook, again sends her into a dead faint...because she must reveal that their night together left her with child! No longer the naive young woman Marcus knew, Eloise is now a jaded widow, reluctant to give up her independence. So what will she do when Marcus stuns her with a proposal?