Brianna Penderley has a knack for getting into precarious situations, particularly when it involves her appreciate for archaeology. In the heart of Naples, her awful Italian provides her accidentally getting engaged to two men at the same time. Obviously, Daniel Wolcott-the Earl of Thornton and the just man ever able to vex her-shows up to save her.

Daniel has spent the majority of his life exercising rigid control more than his feelings, determined never to end up being the rake his father was. But when he would go to help his mentor’s danger-prone niece once again, he discovers himself struggling to regulate his attraction to a woman who’s his opposite.

When their situation goes from awful to worse, Daniel and Brianna end up swept up right into a perilous adventure, and they must work together to create things right. Right now, if they can just avoid killing each other along the way.

Contains mature themes.