When Devil Cynster is caught in a compromising position with governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the town by offering her his hand in marriage. But Honoria wasn't about to marry a man "just" because they'd been caught together unchaperoned. She craved adventure, and while solving the murder of a young Cynster cousin fit the bill for a while, she decided that once the crime was solved she'd go off to see the world. But the heat of her desire for Devil soon had Honoria craving a very different sort of excitement.