Miss Emma Fairbanks is disenchanted with the ton and finds herself bored with the frivolities of the season. Determined to ignore society’s demands that a young woman’s destiny was to become a wife, she hungers for something more. She finds it in the enigmatic and sensual arms of David Maitland, Viscount Barlow. Emma recklessly surrenders to passion but finds their encounter far riskier than she’d hoped, for Emma never anticipated wanting David in her heart…or that she might never hold a place in his.