Their forbidden love is the safest place to be…Lady Rose Vaughan is the epitome of decorum and good manners.Born and raised in a shielded environment, the daughter of the Earl of Somerhold has resigned herself to a life of following orders. Until the day she meets her father's most ardent political rival. With his progressive political views, Kenneth Curtis, the Marquess of Walsrock, is the black sheep of the ton. However, his life of being an outcast comes to an abrupt end when he lays eyes upon the ravishing Lady Rose.With Rose's father eager to see her wed, and Kenneth's political rivals resolved to see him behind bars, they decide to enlist the help of two unlikely people. Rose's reluctant betrothed and Kenneth's low-born liaison to the public.However, past mistakes have a way of returning with a vengeance. With Kenneth's fate hanging by a thread, they realize that they have been harboring a traitor all this time. A traitor thirty years in the making that started with Kenneth's father...

She is ice and fire. The touch of her burns his hands like snow...Though raised like every other well-bred Lady of the ton, Arabella Foster is certainly not one of them. And her unwavering determination to be involved in her father's ducal duties leads her straight into the path of one charming barrister...Of common birth but with an ingenious mind, Charles Connolly has established his professional reign as London's most sought-after barrister. And yet, there's something that eludes him. His heart's greatest desire: Arabella Foster's hand.A series of suspicious deaths of prominent noblemen shakes the foundations of London's high society. When Arabella's father receives a threatening note, all clues point to a single common thread: Charles Connolly.With more than just his reputation on the line, Charles is determined to clear his name and win the favor of Arabella's father. However, the world is a scary place when darkness falls, and unbeknownst to him, Charles just put himself in the gravest danger of them all...