Charles Huntley, Lord Ryevale, notorious rogue…and government agent. His latest assignment is to protect a politician's daughter, Verity Verrinder, while her father negotiates an alliance against Napoleon. But when Ryevale embarks on a campaign of seduction so as to keep Verity under his watchful eye, he doesn't anticipate falling in love with his charge. When Lord Ryevale turns his bone-melting charms on her, Verity suspects she's exchanging an overbearing parent, for a domineering rogue. Denying her attraction to the handsome lord, Verity goes in search of freedom, only to run straight into the clutches of kidnappers. This leaves Lord Ryevale with a stark choice between saving Britain's peace negotiations or the life of the only woman he has ever loved.