SHE HAD ALWAYS DONE AS SHE PLEASED--WITH NARY A THOUGHT TO THE CONSEQUENCES. Indeed, Sally Mallory's great success throughout the ton as a fine portrait painter had been aided by spirited independence--along with wit and extraordinary talent. But now it seemed she had gone too far. Impetuous Sally had compromised her reputation, and now was to be forced into a marriage of convenience with the most distinguished art critic in London, the cold and arrogant Duke, Ian Frobisher! Ian was proud, unbending, quick to anger--and though Sally sensed the hurt beneath his disdain, she was desperate to escape a loveless union. Impulsively, she accepted the disreputable Sir Percy Badham's shocking proposal. . . .

Leonora Burton was born in South Wales. After school in England, she got a job in London in the film industry in Soho. This led to New York and a job with Warner Brothers which owned a magazine, Coronet for which she became publisher. Under the pen name, Leonora Blythe she published a number of Regency romances. She lives with her husband in the Hudson Valley.

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