Secrets, lies, and dark passions can be a hindrance or an enhancement to forced proximity.
Mr. Broderick Dante Cunningham, is an honorary duke. As the Duke of Udolpho, he has been granted access to Club Damnation, an establishment for unwanted, lost, and perhaps undesirable members of the ton who don't fit in with polite society. And that is how he likes it, for his past is littered with crimes a decent man should feel guilt over. Thank God for being a rake because women don't care about any of that; they crave his wicked ways.
Miss Anne Courtney, only daughter to Baron Hampton, wants one thing from life—to make the man who killed her brother pay. When he'll be at the same Christmastide ball she is attending, her plans to publicly accuse him come to fruition. After a series of unfortunate events ends in a very shocking scandal, she is forced to wed the very man she despises. She vows to make his life a trial to pay for what he's done; regardless of that he's attractive as the devil himself.
For the Yuletide season, the unlikely pair is stuck together. What should have been a romantic, honeymoon period is filled, instead, with disagreements, harsh words, broken trinkets, and more than a few explosive carnal meetings designed to tease and torment, initiated by both. But physical relationships won't amount to love unless the participants compromise and extend trust to each other. When an accident suddenly brings everything into sharp focus, Broderick and Anne must decide what they truly want most... and hope for a Christmas miracle to save it all.
