The Vulgar Heart

"Eager to outshine her older sisters, Henrietta Maybury is disappointed to discover the first man to make her heart race is the scion of a banking family, and therefore quite ineligible as a husband to a viscount's daughter. But as it turns out, Captain Sydney Cromarty is even less marriageable than she first imagined. For beneath his respectable facade, he's a notorious smuggler--as Henrietta discovers during a reckless evening at the Hart Inn. And the more she learns, the more he fascinates her. As Henrietta begins to doubt her values, Cromarty is forced to reassess his own. No one is more amused than he to discover he is now the Earl of Silford's heir, a position he has no intention of embracing, but one which makes him dangerous enemies who are not above using his growing feelings for the charming Henrietta to bring him down"--Page 4 of cover.