Given the choice of wedlock or a debtor's cell, the dashing Nicholas, Viscount Torvil, agreed to marry a woman he had never met. Of course, he would continue his scandalous affaire with the flame-haired Cecile, Lady Montaigne. Hadn't Katherine Harmon, bartered bride-to-be, overheard his plans for future infidelities before they were even wed? She would make him rue the day he bought his bride...and the night he tried to melt her with kisses. She was determined to do anything - but fall in love with the rake she had wed!