Women called Jake Darcy mad, bad, and dangerous to know, but Mary Harland insisted rakes were a thing of the past... yet wondered if the stories could possibly be true. She felt too innocent to enchant such a wanton man, but when Jake swept her into his arms and onto the dance floor she shivered in sensual delight as destiny joined them heart to heart! Jake was temptation in the flesh--and she was powerless to resist the desire he aroused. Her promised she'd never escape his passionate obsession, but even Jake could not protect her from dark forces who plotted against them. When Mary disappeared without a trace Jake mourned his only lone for three long years--but when fate reunited them, he was truly devastated. Desperate to recover what their enemy had stolen from her, Mary had to betray the man who'd opened her to love. But when she had to choose between her freedom and Jake, would she be left with only a glittering memory?