It's more than ridiculous, it's damned embarrassing and inconvenient...for ascientist with his reputation to be called in to get rid of a ghost. Butwhen the Prince Regent summons Lord Alan Gresham to London to solve themystery of a haunting, he has no choice. At least the task shouldn't takemuch time. He will uncover the perpetrators of the hoax and then return withspeed to his experiments. Or so Gresham thinks, until he finds his calm,logical investigation disrupted by a maddeningly forthright beauty.Ariel Harding has her own reasons for wanting to catch the ghost. Yet whenshe slips into Carlton House uninvited, she never dreams she'll end uplocked in a closet with an arrogant, opinionated, yet undeniably attractivescientist...or that she'll wind up making a perilous bargain with the verysame man. They agree to exchange information--and nothing more. But neitherplans on the most confounding of scientific occurrences: the breathlesschemistry of desire.