There was no question that Miss Emily Collins would agree to accompany Lord Carson's three motherless children from India to their uncle's estate near Bath. An orphan herself, Emily knew what it meant to be abandoned to the mercy of heartless relatives. Still, she didn't expect to find Oliver Carson such an insufferable rake. Emily was not so bent on reform, however, that she didn't notice something intriguing about the handsome earl -- including his own growing romantic interest in her Could a man such as Oliver truly change?