The Viscount's Wicked Ways

Patience Harrington is no ordinary Miss. After a disastrous season in which her knack for gettin into trouble left her without a suitor, her father decides to enlist her as his assistant at the museum. Patience travels to Blackfield Castle to help her father's party catalogue the priceless Ashe antiques collection. There she meets the new lord of the manor, Thomas Ashe, the tenth Viscount Blackfield. Thomas is dark and brooding and has no time for his uncle's collection or the women in charge of assessing it - no matter how beautiful she may be.

Patience is at once attracted to and terrified by Thomas, and her fear grows when she hears the servants talk of the new lord's "monsters" that he keeps on the castle grounds. Patience is determined to uncover the secrets of the castle and Thomas.

Thomas knows the servants fear him and that's how he likes it. He's not hiding monsters, but rather a team of inventors close to discoveries that will change England's history. And he knows that there are dangerous spies after his secrets, and even suspects Patience. Keeping her close, he soon learns that he has nothing to fear but falling in love with her. Together the two of them work to discover the true spy...