When marrying a scoundrel

Sadie Moon believed she was in love once. Her husband, Jack Friday, left to make his fortune, and she was left to rebuild her life alone. She did it by becoming a fortune-teller, and she is now the favorite of London Society.

Then she meets Jack again, in the one place neither of them would think to look for the other: London's most exclusive house of pleasure. He has come home wealthy and successful, with everything he once wanted except his wife.

Jack holds Sadie responsible for breaking her promise to wait for him, and he says he will never trust her again. The desire between them has not cooled, though, and it pulls against his resentment from their first meeting.

Their past does not stay buried. It draws them into a plot of intrigue and betrayal that could save them both or ruin them both. This is a historical romance set in London, built on a second-chance dynamic between estranged spouses, with a mix of old hurt, mistrust and renewed attraction driving the story.