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Hannah Reid- born a commoner- has been Duchess of Dunbarton since she was nineteen years old- the wife of an elderly Royal to whom she is rumoured to be consistently and flagrantly unfaithful. Now the old Duke is dead and- more womanly and beautiful than ever at thirty- Hannah has her freedom at last. And she knows just what she wants to do with it. To the shock of a conventional friend- she announces her intention to take a lover - and not just any lover- but the most dangerous and delicious man in all of upper class England: Constantine Huxtable.Constantines illegitimacy has denied him the title of Earl- but otherwise he denies himself nothing. Lounging in a country house he populates with trollops- vagabonds and thieves- drinking deep from the goblet of his own carnal lust- he always chooses recent widows for his short-lived affairs. Hannah will fit the bill nicely. But once these two passionate and scandalous figures find each other- they discover it isnt so easy to extricate oneself from the fires of desire - without getting singed....