According to handsome, charming Lord Francis Glennon, his brother Crispin was a rake and a seducer whose desire to marry young Lady Phillipa Worth was no more than a need for funds for his infamous activities at the gaming table and in the boudoir. According to the dashing, debonair Crispin, Francis was a past master at stealing the hearts of trusting young ladies, and a silken-tongued hypocrite whose words of love for Phillipa masked a lust for the fortune that he, as a younger brother, had the misfortune to lack. Phillipa had to decide which one to believe. Which one to love. Which one to become engaged to. And which one to wed. And each time she decided, her mind had to change -- on a whirling romance and intrigue that left her sense and her senses spinning, and her happiness in jeopardy...