Miss Eloise Edginton has spent every single season as a woeful wallflower. Every year, she longs to sing for society as all the other young ladies do. There’s just one problem. Eloise has a golden voice that even the greatest prima donna would envy. Desperate to fulfill her dreams of becoming a great singer, Eloise does the only thing she can. She petitions the famous opera patron the Earl of Hollybrook to aid her. In all her wildest dreams, Eloise never could have imagined his shocking solution but to fulfill her deep desires, she will do whatever he says. Even risk ruin.
The Earl of Hollybrook is a rake of rakes. Knowing the dangers of jealousy, he chooses to change parters as quickly as some gentlemen change their cravats. But when a young lady accosts him at a house party in his bedchamber, it isn’t the sort of proposition he’s used to. And he finds, he cannot resist Eloise’s dreams. Determined to make them come true, as his never could, Hollybrook takes her in hand. But as he does, she takes his heart. The very worst thing that could happen. For he fears the monster that love could make him.