By Stephanie Laurens

Good-looking, filthy rich, and well-born, Jonas Tallent has every little thing a gentleman must take pleasure in London society to the fullest—and he has. he is performed playing cards until eventually sunrise, flirted with eligible younger girls, and made like to a few ineligible ones. yet now he is stressed and tired of the senseless frivolity and careless excitement, so it really is with a feeling of aid that he's taking up the reins of his family's property in rural Devon. His such a lot urgent desire is to rent a brand new supervisor for the inn—the heart of village lifestyles. this sort of small job, but he discovers few respectable candidates are keen to reside in a quiet kingdom backwater. Then genteel yet impoverished omit Emily Beauregard applies for the placement. Jonas's preliminary reaction is an emphatic "no!" girls, specifically one as beautiful as Emily, belong within the ballroom or the bed room, now not working an hotel. yet with out possible choices, he grudgingly permits Emily to attempt, and she or he speedily proves herself helpful, resurrecting the resort with tact and ability. yet Emily has a mystery. it isn't in basic terms the necessity to offer for herself and her orphaned siblings that has introduced her to Devon. She's surreptitiously trying to find a kin treasure hidden within the village, the single clues to its position a cryptic rhyme passed down in the course of the generations. Emily is set to resolve the puzzle, locate the treasure, and reinstate her kin to its rightful position in society. yet Em hasn't bargained on Jonas. His adventure is temptation, his attentions impossible to resist, and he is decided to assist her in her quest. He finally persuades her to belief him, and jointly they resolve the clues. yet another individual is looking at, ready, and as soon as the kin legacy is unearthed, the villain moves, threatening Em, her kin, and the affection she and Jonas have chanced on in each one other's fingers.