One handsome rogue, one headstrong miss, and one compromising night. Exiled from polite society, and forever banned from the world her mother dreamed for her, Kit Langdon disappeared into the night, vowing to extract herself from that world permanently and to stay away from the wretched being who caused it all. The man she thought she fell in love with. Years later, and unbeknownst to him, she saves him in a tavern brawl. Aiden hires the stable boy who saved him from a good trussing, vowing to help the boy any way he could. Little did he know that the "boy" would disrupt his well-organized life in all of her attempts to remain hidden. Will Kit ever get back to her chosen life, or will she fall in love all over again with the very man who left her heartbroken?

For years he was despised, loathed and hated. Those very emotions became him as he fled, vowing to never return and to be used as a spawn. But life has a funny way to put us in situations we despise, he had to return to the very thing he despised to carry out the duties which were rightfully his. She was taught to be a lady, one of status. Her sole purpose in life was to provide heirs for her future husband, nothing more, nothing less. And that is what she lived by, what she believed, until he came along....... He stirs feelings inside of her she never knew existed. She awakens feelings he thought he had buried long ago. Together, they discover each other. But old enemies are plotting. Could their beginning be their end?