Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesThe going price for Julia Prentiss’s virginity was fifteen thousand pounds!Determined not to enter into a forced marriage, Julia could see no way out – unless she were to become a ruined woman! Notorious rake Paine Ramsden was reputed to have no qualms about seducing innocents, so maybe he would help with her…predicament. Certainly Paine deserved his rakish reputation – yet Julia was so achingly pure, one night with her might just ruin him!Awakening Julia’s sensuality aroused unfamiliar feelings in him – was it too late to make them both respectable?