
It’s just like his love for her, imperfect, unexpected-yet absolutely true. Her dark eyes are too wide, her mouth is too full, her cheekbones too sharp. Max has never in all his life met a woman with such nerve.

As though this sort of thing happened on the job every day. Miss Moore treats the crisis as though it were no more serious than a cup of spilt tea on an expensive rug. Now he’s at the mercy of the captivating Miss Ivory Moore of Chegarre & Associates, known throughout London for smoothing over the most dire of scandals.


But he’s returned home from his latest voyage to find a naked earl-quite inconveniently deceased-tied to his missing sister’s bed. Captain Maximus Harcourt, the unconventional tenth Duke of Alderidge, can deal with tropical storms, raging seas, and the fiercest of pirates.
