Product Description From the glittering ballrooms of Rgency London to the glorious gardens of countryside manors， Kleypas invites readers to visit a lushly romantic world."Lady Hawksworth， your husband is not dead..." With those words， Lara's life turned upside down. Hunter， Earl of Hawksworth， had been lost at sea. Or so she'd been told. Their unhappy marriage-with its cold caresses and passionless kisses-was over. But now a powerful， virile man stood before her， telling her secrets only a husband could know and vowing she would be his wife in every way. While Lara couldn't deny that this man with the smoldering eyes resembled Hunter， he was attentive and loving in ways he never had been before. Soon she desperately wanted to beleive， with every beat of her heart， that this stranger was truly her husband. But had the rake reformed-or was Lara being seduced by a cunning stranger?