When Ava Wilson travels to Northumberland to meet her estranged uncle, he doesn't seem like the "Satan incarnate" that her late father painted him to be. He lives in a straight-from-the-pages-of-a-gothic-novel castle, working for the very rich Dechlan Ross. Their neighbor, Lord Winslow, is friendly and dashing and the stuff of every girl's dreams. So what is she missing? Sinjun Banks is there to do renovations on Ashcroft Castle, but what he'd really like to work on is Ava. Too bad the bewitching beauty has set her sights higher for the golden Lord Winslow, a lesson on the lure of the aristocracy that Sinjun has already bitterly learned. When Ava witnesses something through the window of Winslow Manor that drives her into Sinjun's arms, he grapples with whether to compromise her just because she's begging him to do it. Oh, and because he's dying to as well.