Lady Allegra Musgrove has resigned herself to never marrying, though a carefree, no-strings dalliance with a devilish rogue still tempts her.
Her sister Carenza is now happily wed after advertising for just such an arrangement with a gentleman of the ton, but the scandal has landed on Allegra, who is ordered to leave London for the family home in the countryside.
A masked rake abducts her along the way to settle a drunken wager made at a men's club.
When their speeding carriage overturns, Allegra takes charge and finds that her captor is Lord Max Devereux, a notorious ne'er-do-well who buys his way out of trouble and beds women without consequence.
Sober at last, Max wants the debacle forgotten and Allegra sent back to the city, yet being stranded in the middle of nowhere with so experienced a rake may be the worst luck she could suffer—or the closest she will come to the affair she wanted.
