title: The Passionate Prude
author: Thornton, Elizabeth
description: When word reached Deirdre Fenton that her brother was pursuing the notorious actress Mrs. Dewinters, she immediately set about extricating her incorrigible sibling from his latest folly. But her brother had gone too far this time for his -- or her -- own good. For Mrs. Dewinters was under the powerful protection of the reprobate war hero, the Earl of Rathbourne…the very man Deirdre had summarily rejected years before after nearly succumbing to his highly improper advances. And the earl was not a man to forgive an insult -- or forget a lady as passionate as Miss Fenton.
  
  Hero: Gareth Cavenaugh, Earl of Rathbourne
  Heroine: Deirdre Fenton