After the lovely Venetia Stratham very publicly jilts her libertine fiance at the altar, she flees society to escape the savagery of the towns gossipmongers. But when her beloved younger sister falls under the spell of another notorious rakehell, Quinn Wilde, Earl of Traherne, Venetia returns to save her sister from heartbreak--and somehow winds up wedded to the arrogant and irresistible lord herself...