Publisher's Synopsis
Twenty-five-year-old Venetia Lanyon's beauty is rivalled only by her practicality. Having grown up secluded and protected from the world, she is resigned to a peaceful spinsterhood attending to the responsibilities of running a Yorkshire estate and providing companionship for her beloved younger brother Aubrey. Then her long-absent neighbour, the infamous rake Lord Jasper Damerel, returns home, and sparks fly when the pair stumble across each other. Despite Damerel's shocking reputation, the two strike up a friendship - and suddenly lovely, sensible Venetia is entangled with the dashing libertine whose conduct has scandalised the North Riding for years!
