title: The Last Light
author: Salazar, Ana
description: Grace Radbyrne is small and pale, a timid vicar's widow. Bowed beneath the weight of a burden she's laughably unsuited to bear, she sets herself toward locating her older brother, who went missing in London soon after their household collapsed into the disarray of debt. To this end, she enters into society, asking the right questions of the wrong parties.
      Damian Ward, Duke of Carisbrooke, is a bitter man, damaged by betrayal. By all accounts, he's bleak, loveless, and more than a little mad. A twist of fate finds him rescuing Grace when claustrophobia is about to overwhelm her. Coincidence continues to throw them together, and Damian finds himself reluctantly drawn to the quiet woman who is more than she seems. When the Home Secretary requests Damian's help investigating a diabolical gentlemen's club, the first damning clue leads right back to Grace. Her seeming duplicity strikes too close to home, and Damian retaliates, offering a devil's bargain.
      Reluctantly, she agrees to become his mistress in exchange for his assistance, her good name for her brother's life. Deeper, they sink into a maelstrom of danger, sure of nothing but their desire for one another.