Lucian's grandfather believed his tainted French blood had ruined him...

Lucian's father was a family outcast until his death for the sin of marrying a French woman. When Lucien finds himself inheriting his grandfather's earldom--as well as the kind of life he'd been denied since birth--he decides to sell his high-stakes gambling house in London and begin a more respectable life. The last thing he wants is a nosey reporter complicating things.

Temperance has her entire future mapped out...

Until her fiancé jilts her- in a letter.

She won't take that lying down. Not at all! She will win him back! She will research that article on the evils of gambling Charles Dickens asked her to write! AND, it will be published in his newspaper! To top it off, Ernest will come crawling back to her...

Now, if she can just figure out how to make it all happen...