When Max, Earl Blakehurst, meets Verity he sees a downtrodden servant. He doesn't recognize her as the daughter of a colonel under whom he used to serve, the girl he'd once helped years before. The life Verity's now living is untenable. So he proposes a shocking solution -- he will set her up as his mistress. It's only once that Verity's finally agreed, once Max is beginning to lose his heart to her,...
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