A charming rogue, a desperate heiress, and a love that can't be bought.

Miss Genevieve Sterling has come to London to escape the fortune hunters of New York. Determined to find a man who loves her for herself, not her family’s millions, she hides her wealth and presents herself as a woman of modest means. But to navigate the treacherous waters of the London Season, she needs a guide. She turns to the one man who seems to know everything: the Duke of Hawthorne, a notorious rake with a reputation for scandal and an uncanny ability to read people's true intentions.

Unbeknownst to Genna, the duke’s charms are a carefully constructed façade. He is a man on the verge of ruin, desperate to save his family from destitution and marry a wealthy American heiress—the very woman he has just agreed to help. As he introduces her to a parade of eligible bachelors, he finds himself falling for the woman she is, not the fortune he believes she has. He becomes the man he longs to be, and she falls for the honorable man beneath the rake’s mask.

But when Genna’s father arrives to arrange a marriage to a titled aristocrat, their hidden lives collide. In a desperate attempt to force her father's hand, Genna orchestrates a scandalous situation that she believes will secure her future with the man she loves. To her horror, the duke publicly refuses her, leaving her heartbroken and humiliated.

Now, with a sea between them, the duke must choose between his family’s honor and the woman he loves, while Genna must decide if her heart can ever truly forgive the man who broke it. Can a love built on deception ever find a way to become a lasting truth?