The third dashing member of the Bastion Club meets his match in a dynamic tale of lost love rediscovered, family secrets, murder and mayhem.
Charles St Austell, Earl of Lostwithiel, is investigating rumours of spies and smuggling when he encounters an old friend, Lady Penelope Selborne, whom he has never ceased wanting for his own. For Charles and Penny share a past, a past that has left her unable to trust him - and made her the one women who can resist his seductive charms.
When Penny's family is threatened, he cannot fail to help this damsel in distress, even if he has to fight an uphill battle to make her believe in him as she did long ago. But just how far is he willing to go to win her?
