Editor's Pick Notorious rake Asher Blackbourne isn't the indulgent Lord everyone thinks he is. His tenuous control hangs by a thread, but when Ivy bursts into his life, control has nothing to do with the fire she ignites in his blood. Ivy Wollard's welcome in society has long been revoked as the daughter of an infamous criminal. So when a risky proposition from the mysterious Marquess of Blackbourne might change her grim future, she finds herself unable to resist his plan or the enigmatic man himself. Yet as Ash's scheme creates a forbidden passion, Ivy's deadly secrets threaten to destroy them as her past becomes a very real and present nightmare from which neither can escape...