Fast horses fill his days. Fast women fill his nights. Racing horseman, Clive Gravelle, has never given the idea of settling down much thought at all. And why should he? His life is satisfying just as it is. Or, he would say so, even if it isn’t really true. But ideas do change. New acquaintances are made. Love finds a way of pushing in, becoming something very unexpected—a forbidden dream to a man like Gravelle. He won’t ever fall in love with a woman again. Then he finds Cariss Wilton. Beautiful, lovely, sweet, unspoiled, Cariss Wilton. She comes gently into his life, although the effect is anything but gentle for him because Cariss is someone he can never have. She is innocent, and far too young. A girl so faraway and above the debauched world in which he’s lived his life, that he couldn’t possibly entertain the notion of dragging her down with him. But Cariss is far stronger than she looks, and she definitely knows the difference between good and evil. Clive Gravelle just needs to be persuaded that he is so much more than an expert predictor of winning horseflesh, and a scandalous cad with the ladies. Will the innocent tame the rogue? Maybe she already has, but he just hasn’t realized it yet.