The Rented Heart (Inconvenient Ventures #2)

A dead painter’s code. A bad leg. And a woman with the audacity to mistake him for the valet.

In this steamy Regency romance, a midnight intruder and a sharp-tongued skeptic find themselves bound by a bargain neither expected … and a desire neither can deny.

But can two people built on secrets trust each other enough to find what they’re truly searching for?

He has more to hide than she knows … Nicholas Scott, younger brother of a baron, has spent weeks confined to Grimsfell Hall, a crumbling Cornish manor lashed by Atlantic wind, nursing an injured leg and a sharper pride.

When he wakes in the dead of night to find a fair-haired woman in spectacles calmly rifling through his bedchamber, he is not frightened. He is, for the first time in a very long while, intrigued.

The quest she proposes is not without its dangers. The coin she offers is not something he needs. But the peculiar young woman herself? That, he suspects, is another matter entirely.