He's her ticket into high society ...
Banking heiress Ursula Nunes has lived her life on the fringes of Philadelphia's upper class. Her Jewish heritage means she's never quite been welcomed by society's elite ... and her quick temper has never helped, either.
A faux engagement to the scion of the mid-Atlantic's most storied family might work to repair her rumpled reputation and gain her entrée to the life she thinks she wants ... if she can ignore the way her "betrothed" makes her feel warm all over and stay focused on her goal.
She's his ticket out ...
Former libertine John Thaddeus "Jay" Truitt is hardly the man to teach innocent women about propriety. Luckily, high society has little to do with being proper and everything to do with identifying your foe's temptation—an art form Jay mastered long ago. A broken engagement will give him the perfect excuse to run off to Europe and a life of indulgence.
But when the game turns too personal, all bets are off ...