Adam, the Seventh Earl of Greyhawke, refuses to ruin another woman. Heartbroken after his wife dies in childbirth, Adam vows never to be the inadvertent cause for a woman's death again. But when he meets the beautiful Lady Katherine Wright, his resolution proves a to be much more difficult to uphold. Especially after he makes her his bride...Lady Katherine never believed a man would love her for more than her dowry, until the devastatingly handsome Earl of Greyhawke proves to her with his words and slow-burning passion that he is the husband she has long been waiting for. But when the delights of marriage are slow to come, Katherine must come out of her shell and seduce her husband, again and again...