Uncovering the mystery… Of the brooding Earl… Arriving at a forbidding mansion on the Yorkshire moors, governess Selina Salinger is alarmed to find her new employer just as forbidding! Looking after his orphaned nieces, Selina gradually warms to Lord Westcroft. Their kisses make her dare to hope that the ice around his heart is melting and a proposal could be a possibility. Instead he shocks her—with a proposition so scandalous that no genteel lady could ever accept…!