Publisher's Synopsis
A fortuitous encounter in the dark will inextricably bind their destinies together...
Harmony George has spent her life in the care of her abhorrent and miserly aunt and uncle. Her only wish is to come of age, gain access to her modest inheritance, and travel the world, like the heroine of her favourite book.
Unfortunately, the Talbots have a completely different fate mapped out for her and have arranged her marriage to the most obscene and shocking jockey of the whole of England. When she finds out that, to make matters worse, her inheritance was used to settle old debts, Harmony, driven mad by anger, decides to escape from her relatives' clutches right in the middle of the Christmas Ball at Felton House.
Devlin, Duke of Waldegrave, has lost the woman he thought was his true love. Formerly London's most eligible bachelor, he is now a spiteful and bitter man whose only comfort lies inside a bottle of spirits.While he is getting drunk in the garden of Felton House, in the dark, Waldegrave bumps into an irate young girl trying to climb up the fence, putting her life at risk. He could never have suspected she would change his life forever.
