Lord Cameron Mackenzie is intrigued when he finds the pretty widow, Ainsley Douglas, hiding in the window seat of his bedchamber. Cam remembers Ainsley Douglas all right six years ago, he'd caught her in this very bedchamber, during a house party in the Mackenzies Scottish manor. Enchanted by her ingenuous excuses, he decided to seduce her, but stopped shy when shed made a rather touching appeal about her good husband who didnt deserve to be heartbroken.
Later, Cameron learned that her visit to his bedchamber was part of some female intrigue against him, the kind his late wife used to practice. Ainsley protested her innocence, but Camerons anger made him never want to see her again. Now shes back, at another housepartyand Cameron finds the gray-eyed minx in his bedchamber, again. Her excuses are just as ingenuous, but this time Cameron is determined to teach her a lesson.
They have unfinished business, Cameron tells her. He asks her how many of her many buttons shell let him unclasp, promising that before the houseparty is over, shell be asking him to undo them all.
Ainsleys dismay is real. Shes on a mission to prevent embarrassment to Queen Victoria, and time is running out. Though the needs hed stirred long ago during her unhappy marriage rise again, she knows it would be foolish to fall for love-them-and-leave-them Cameron Mackenzie.
But he asks her a question that challenges her beliefs about love and happiness, and she finds herself risking all to be with the black sheep of the Mackenzie family.
Literatura Estrangeira / Romance