The moment that Lady Alicia Alston first encountered Ian Cairnyllan, shecould see that this imperious lord from the wilds of Scotland had a greatdeal to learn. He clearly did not appreciate that Alicia was a mostsought-after beauty, with swarms of suitors. He had even less understandingof the pleasures his younger sister wished to pursue in her first Londonseason. And he absolutely refused to mask his contempt for the dictates ofsociety and for the behavior of its leading lights. Lord Cairnyllan might behigh and mighty now, but Alicia vowed that before she was finished, he wouldbow to the ways of the civilized world, And as she pitted her wiles againsthis iron will, Alicia discovered that at the end of her cleverly conceivedmaze of intrigue was the the pitfall of love...