When Jane Ingleby interrupts a duel in Londons Hyde Park Jocelyn Dudley Duke of Tresham gets shot & Jane late for work at a milliners workshop loses her job. She is angry enough to demand a new job of Jocelyn & he is angry enough to hire her
- as his nurse. Her blue eyes are the sort a man could drown in
- if it wasnt for her imprudence. She questions his every move breaches his secrets & touches his soul & soon the dangerous duke is offering her a different job
- as his mistress. Jane tries to keep it strictly business an arrangement she is forced to accept in order to conceal a treacherous secret. Surely there is nothing more perilous than being the lover of such a man. Yet as she sees through his devilish facade & glimpses the noble heart within she knows the greatest jeopardy of all is the rising passion that could tempt her to risk everything...