Miss Isabella Ramsey was intimately acquainted with the facts of life. The facts of country life, that is. For she had to manage her family estate to keep her father from ruin and her sister dressed in the height of fashion.

Then Julian Montcrief the Marquess of Roth, and the most notorious rake in the realm, appeared on the rural scene. And from her first encounter with this dazzling lord, Isabella realized how very little she knew of the ways of the world and the wiles of love. What she didn't suspect, however, was how fast and how much all that would change...