Alyson Hampton was a scorned love child... until a vast legacy made her the fabulously wealthy Lady Hampton, pursued by the most rapacious fortune hunters in the realm. This exquisite innocent was in desperate need of rescue—and it came from a startling source. Handsome and bold Lord Rory Maclean was an adventurer whom the world called a rogue and worse. It was on his sleek smuggler's ship that she fled and England of danger... and in his arms found a paradise of passion on a voyage to a new world of love...

The highly improper Bostonian Evelyn Wellington dared to wear men's britches, but her sensual beauty showed she was all woman. British ship owner and notorious rake Alex Hampton had never dealt with a more maddening female. This handsome lord had docked in Boston Harbor only to find that his cargo—now stored in the very angry Miss Wellington's warehouse—was French brandy instead of china plates. Discovery could lead to their arrest as smugglers, and escape depend on an unthinkable proposal: marriage! And so a pair of battling hearts were joined in legal matrimony. But Evelyn's dreams betrayed her true feelings, as she longed to kiss Alex... kisses that could bring them dangerously close to heartbreak—or to the enticing flames of love...