The Deverells

True Deverell has decided it's time to set the record straight. He means to dictate his memoirs to this little widow who, according to the instructions he sent to his solicitor, should merely be plain and have a neat hand. He doesn't want any distractions and has endured his fill of scandal. But when Mrs. Olivia Monday arrives on his doorstep, True realizes that perhaps his story isn't over yet.

All things considered, Storm has everything he wants, whenever he wants it, in his uncomplicated world. And even if life is a little quiet sometimes, at least it's predictable. Until a strange woman arrives to shatter his unchallenged bachelor tranquility.

Raven Deverell laughs her way through life - and through men - on a dare and a jest. She's having fun, never letting anybody too close, and thumbing her nose at the strict rules of society. Until a stray wink from the back of a horse brings her mischief to the disdainful attention of Sebastian Hale.

"Infidele! Sans coeur! L'homme impossible!"— Belle Saint Claire (Mademoiselle), Stage Artiste of Popular Renown. "He is worse even than his father; a despicable scoundrel, a sybarite without conscience."— Anon. of Mayfair. "One (1) Brovver For Sale: Free to good howme. Or any howme."— Raven Deverell, (seven and three quarters), in a note left on park railings.

When these two stubborn young people—Damon the "merciless shark" of a lawyer, who likes his world in order, and the utterly disorderly Miss Piper, a "despicable girl of whom nothing could be made" find themselves thrown together by mischievous fate, it's not just a battle of the sexes or even a comedy of errors… It's a chemical reaction that will change both their worlds forever.