Lady Lissa Lovington has a problem: too many suitors all hungering for the same thing-her newly-acquired inheritance. So Lissa plants a devious rumor: she's had a liaison with the notorious, and notoriously handsome, Gabriel Gordon, the sixth Earl of Wylde. Outcast by the ton, Gabriel has won too many duels and is believed to have had a hand in the death of his would-be-bride. The rumor works like a charm, until the mercurial Lord Wylde arrives to turn the tables and make Lissa's pretend liaison