Duel of Seduction

Aidan O'Sullivan, Baronet of Howth, is one of the most respected colonels in the British Army. However, in his free time, he is an unscrupulous rake who despises women and only associates with them for sex.

Silvania Arlington is the second daughter of the Duke of Rochester. The seven Arlington sisters live in isolation in a castle fifty miles from London, maintaining only distant contact with their father—who works secretly for the Crown—through letters. This circumstance, combined with losing their mother when they were very young, has led each of them to develop a strong personality, far removed from the attitudes and conventions of their social class.

Silvania is the intellectual among the sisters—she lives to read and reads to live, always surrounded by books.

And it is precisely a pile of books that causes Silvania's and Aidan's lives to intersect.

From that day forward, Aidan becomes determined to make Silvania fall prey to his seductive schemes, intending to possess and then abandon her, as he has done so many times before with others. But Silvania has ideas of her own and won't make it easy for him. In fact, her intention is to make it impossible.

Who will win the thrilling duel these two are about to face?