Pretty and popular, Miss Clare Westmore knows exactly what (or rather, who) she wants: the next Duke of Harrington. But when she twists her ankle on the eve of the Season's most touted event, Clare is left standing in the wallflower line watching her best friend dance away with her duke. Dr. Daniel Merial is tempted to deliver more than a diagnosis to London's most unlikely wallflower, but he doesn't have time for distractions, even one so delectable....

When a scandalous moment with Geoffrey Westmore, London's most notorious scoundrel, unexpectedly leads to discovering an assassination plot, bookish spinster Mary Channing teams up with the unrepentant rogue to unmask a traitor.