Chapter One - A Letter

From a stately country house in Hampshire to the dazzling drawing rooms of London Society comes an exquisite tale of an elfin beauty, a vengeful lord, and a sweet love that is sheer poetry. With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Josephine Langford is resigned to a life of spinsterhood, until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heels in love. Sensitive, intelligent, and high-minded, her noble pen pal seems to embody everything Josephine has ever dreamed of in a man. But the mysterious Earl of Derbyshire is not at all what he seems. Driven by dark, smouldering, Even passions and a tragic secret buried deep within his soul, Derbyshire has all of London cowering at his feet, but not Josephine... never Josephine. For even as she surrenders to his seductive charms, she knows the real reason for his amorous wit. And she knows that she must reach the heart of his green-eyed dragon before the avenging demons of their entwined pasts destroy the only love she has ever known...