She makes music. He makes scandals. Until desire unmakes them both.

Marianne Vyler is a penniless debutante, trapped by guardians and ghastly suitors. Her only escape is moonlighting as a harpist in London’s most notorious townhouse — where masked men revel with enraptured women.

Frederick Clare, Duke of FitzOsbern, is the High Buckthorn himself: libertine leader of the Grand Bucks. Yet one harpist’s haunting melody unravels him. When the curtain falls and Marianne beholds him bare, ...
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