Can their friendship survive when they accidentally cross the line.

After being forced into a brief marriage with an elderly earl, Celia Dorsett is ready to embrace her freedom, and take a lover. A masquerade with the demimonde sounds like the perfect way to find a companion for the evening without revealing her identity.

But days after the most perfect evening of her life, she comes to realize her Lord Desire is none other than Christopher Sinclair, Viscount Stormont, her younger brother's best friend. The man who sits with her at the breakfast table nearly every morning making her laugh. The man who, years ago, had let her down in the worst possible way by not saving her from an unpleasant fate.

Kit still carries the scars from Celia's rejection when she'd chosen money over happiness. But he is no longer a destitute nobleman. He now has the funds to take care of a wife and family properly. He's ready to marry, but Celia is not interested in giving up her independence.

Can they heal from the pains of the past and find their way back to that night of happiness?

Contains mature themes.