He's a Beast hiding in the shadows. She's a wallflower who knows the value of every secret. In this cold-blooded marriage of convenience, the only thing more dangerous than the truth is the attraction wasn't in the contract. Lady Clara Thorne is not your typical debutante. While other girls are hunting for husbands in London ballrooms, Clara is hunting for errors in ledger books. But when her brother's gambling debts threaten to ruin her family name, she's forced to make a deal with the most feared man in England: Sebastian Thorne, the "Beast of Thorne Manor."