“Marry me, and the scandal ends tonight.”

Margot Harcourt has already lost her reputation once, and she will not survive a second fall. But when she is discovered alone with London’s most infamous Duke, ruin becomes inevitable.

Whispers follow Sebastian Vale everywhere. And he has always enjoyed them. Until Margot becomes his responsibility… and he chooses to claim it. His honor is the one thing he does not gamble with.

After their marriage, he gives her one this union changes nothing. His heart remains untouched. But Margot has never cared for his rules. And when she awakens the man he tried to destroy, Sebastian realizes the truth. If she is not his, he cannot be his own.