Their forbidden love is the safest place to be…

Lady Rose Vaughan is the epitome of decorum and good manners.

Born and raised in a shielded environment, the daughter of the Earl of Somerhold has resigned herself to a life of following orders. Until the day she meets her father’s most ardent political rival.

With his progressive political views, Kenneth Curtis, the Marquess of Walsrock, is the black sheep of the ton. However, his life of being an outcast comes to an abrupt end when he lays eyes upon the ravishing Lady Rose.

With Rose’s father eager to see her wed, and Kenneth’s political rivals resolved to see him behind bars, they decide to enlist the help of two unlikely people. Rose’s reluctant betrothed and Kenneth’s low-born liaison to the public.

However, past mistakes have a way of returning with a vengeance. With Kenneth’s fate hanging by a thread, they realize that they have been harboring a traitor all this time. A traitor thirty years in the making that started with Kenneth’s father…