UNMASKING THE DUKE'S MISTRESS: With trembling hands, Arabella dons the mask of Miss Noir for her first night at Mrs Silver's House of Pleasures. Thinking of her young son, she prepares to smile prettily at the next gentleman who enters... Dominic Furneaux, Duke of Arlesford, is stunned to see that the woman who shattered his heart has fallen so low. He decides to offer her a way out by making her his mistress! A DARK AND BROODING GENTLEMAN: Sebastian Hunter has shown his last hand at the card table. Nights once spent womanising and gambling are now spent in the dark shadows of Blackloch Hall, staring out onto the wild windswept Scottish moors. That is until the mysterious Phoebe Allardyce his mother's new and far too pretty companion interrupts his brooding. After catching her thieving, the master of the house has no choice but to keep a close eye on this provocative little temptress...