SHE WAS PURSUED BY A MAN SHE DETESTED. AND TORMENTED BY THE MAN SHE LOVED. Abused and neglected during all the years she had lived with them, Anabel fled her aunt and uncle's home on the eve of her proposed engagement to her loathed cousin Miles. All she wanted was a chance—a chance to live in London. When the notorious Viscount Ryder found her wandering in the rain on her way to London, he carried her to the city in his coach. But with his reputation for scandal, Anabel became the target of malicious gossip—and the center of a plot for blackmail and kidnapping....