The last Penworthy sister, ruined and saved from a trickster at the alter has one chance to come back to England and find a new life. . . She must become a companion to a recluse's sister in the wilds of Yorkshire. . . But the past wants to drag her back into the darkness, and when she meets the Beast of Hardcastle, she doesn't know if her last chance is worth surviving the dark nights in his domain. . . Until he begins to awaken her broken heart and tease her with the promise of pleasure. The Beast of Hardcastle knows heart break. Tragedy destroyed his entire family in one night. When he agrees to take on a ruined young lady for his former best friend, he plans on avoiding her in his vast castle. But a shocking first meeting changes everything and he cannot ignore the way he is drawn to her over and over again. He can never fall in love again. . . But perhaps. . . Just perhaps he can bring her into his bed.