I AM THE COLLATERAL FOR A DEBT I DID NOT INCUR.
My father gambled away our lives, and Viscount Dominic Walker was the one to collect. He is the master of Blenheim Estate. A man of ruthless power and cold calculation. He does not want the coin we do not have. He wants my virtue. He wants my absolute submission.
I am a lowly maid, a shadow in his halls. Now, I am his prisoner in silk. He bought my father's freedom with my ruin. Every night in his library is a lesson in surrender. He breaks my pride with a single look. He claims my body with a touch that burns. I should loathe the man who owns me. Instead, I find myself craving the very chains he uses to bind me.
The scandal of our secret affair is a blade hanging over my neck. The high-born ladies of the Ton wait for me to fall. Dominic is a predator who takes what he desires without mercy. He forces me to stand in silent witness to his luxury while he marks me as his own in the dark. My reputation is a small price to pay for the fire he has ignited in my soul.
He will either make me his lady or destroy me in the flames of his obsession.