The Scarred Earl

Caught in a midnight tryst! Can a reclusive and distrustful lord, scarred by betrayal and raised without love, learn to trust a pampered society beauty who seems to have the whole world at her elegantly shod feet? When Alexander Forthin, Earl of Calvercombe, clashes with Persephone Seaborne it seems not But a series of mysterious disappearances links their two families, forcing the embittered soldier and the toast of St. James into an unlikely alliance-- one that starts the gossips' tongues wagging Especially after they are caught in a secret midnight tryst!