USA Today bestselling author Kathryn Smith’s third installment in her sexy Victorian series, about the powerful and wealthy patrons of London’s most prestigious house of pleasure.

A lady must always guard her heart…when tempting a rogue.

In the glittering ballroom of London’s most exclusive gentleman’sclub no one is more powerful than its mysterious proprietress,Vienne La Rieux. A shrewd businesswoman, Vienne treasures herhard-won independence and has her eye on a prize that couldmake her England’s richest woman . . . until the only threatto her heart arrives, sending her controlled world into chaos.

Lord Trystan Kane is as familiar with success as he is withthe exquisite Vienne. She’s the lover he’s never forgotten, and so,when an opportunity arises that would make them partnersonce again, he takes it. But Trystan has underestimated theenduring power of the chemistry that originallysparked their passion. And with an enemywatching from the shadows, any attemptto mix business with pleasure couldhave disastrous consequences.