Beauty Tempts the Beast

She wants lessons in seduction

Althea Stanwick was a perfect lady destined to marry a wealthy lord, until betrayal left her family penniless. Though she's lost friends, fortune, and respectability, Althea has gained a scandalous plan. If she can learn to seduce, she can obtain power over men and return to Society on her terms. She even has the perfect teacher in mind, a man whose sense of honor and dark good looks belie his nickname: Beast.

But desire like this can't be taught

Benedict Trewlove may not know his parentage but he knows where he belongs -- on the dark side of London, offering protection wherever it's needed. Yet no woman has ever made such an outrageous request as this mysterious beauty. Althea is out of place amongst vice and sin, even if she offers a wicked temptation he can't resist. But as the truth of his origin emerges at last, it will take a fierce, wild love to o

More by Lorraine Heath

• Passions of a Wicked Earl (2005)
• Beyond Scandal and Desire (2018)
• Scoundrel of My Heart (2021)
• The Return of the Duke (2022)
• When a Duke Loves a Woman (2018)
• The Scoundrel in Her Bed (2019)
• → Lorraine Heath books in order (full reading guide)

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