Sworn never to become leg-shackled to any man, Vivian Reddington dreaded the marriage mart of the current London Season. She simply couldn't act like an addle -brained flirt. But her boredom at tone of the endless balls was arrested by a handsome stranger with a jagged scar across one cheek and a devil-take-em smile. She had seen him before - in the smuggle r's caves near her family's country estate. Now she heard the rumors: he was a man resonsilbe for dark deeds. Vivian thought him perfect - for the romantic hero of her secret novel.