When Jane Ingleby interrupts a duel in London's Hyde Park. Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, gets shot, and Jane, late for work at a milliner's workshop, loses her job. She is angry enough to demand a new job of Jocelyn, and he is angry enough to hire her - as his nurse. Her blue eyes are the sort a man could drown in, and soon the dangerous duke is offering her a different job - as his mistress.
Jane tries to keep it strictly business, an arrangement she is
forced to accept in order to conceal a treacherous secret. Yet as she sees through his devilish façade and glimpses the noble heart within, she knows the greatest jeopardy of all is the rising passion that could tempt her to risk everything...