Sophistication is everything in secular living rooms. But behind closed doors, a world of scandalous passion awaits...Patience Waverley has neither time for brash English aristocrats, nor the desire to become one of them. But when Patience and her twin Prudence arrive in London from Philadelphia to collect their inheritance, she discovers that she is now a baroness. Meanwhile, Prudence is determined to marry the title. She sets a trap for Max Purefoy, the future Duke of Sunderland, and, to Patience's horror, the most seductive scoundrel she has ever met. Max has little interest in the frivolous Prudence, but is intrigued by the sincere, outrageously attractive Baroness. When Prudence's evil plan to marry Max nearly ruins him, he seeks compensation from Patience. She should become his wife. And he will agree only to make their union a ruthless, endless pleasure.