It started as a lie. Now it’s the only truth that matters.
Lady Persephone Humphries finds herself with a fork in the road: accept the Rake of Traville’s advances or dance with the Scottish Laird. When the Rake proves to be dangerous, though, her only savior is the insufferable Laird. And Persephone realizes he might be the solution to all her problems.
Laird Stonehill’s efforts to avoid marriage go awry when the intoxicating English woman he just saved proposes courtship. Well, it would be a fake courtship, per her words, but Tormod fears his feelings might be all too real.
And he is right, for their fake courtship soon blooms into hidden feelings and desires. Their passion shakes them to their core. Yet, Persephone doesn’t even manage to cross the borders on her way to him before she gets attacked. In a sea of their love, they are swimming with the sharks…and they attack when they smell blood.