Slightly Sinful

Lord Alleyne Bedwyn, the middle son of a powerful and unconventional family, is a diplomat caught up in the chaos of war. When his horse throws him and he is left for dead, he wakes in a bedchamber in a ladies' brothel with no memory of his name, his family or how he came to be there. All he knows for certain is that he wants the woman who is nursing him back to health.

She is Rachel York, and she is not what she appears to be either. A young woman in a desperate situation, she has had her fortune stolen and needs a plan to get it back. The handsome stranger she rescued may be exactly the ally she needs, but his help comes with one condition: she must pass herself off as his wife.

The pretense draws the two into a scandal. Each step they take together tests the boundaries of propriety, and each forbidden kiss turns two strangers who barely know themselves into something much closer. Alleyne is cut off from his past and Rachel is hiding her own, and both must decide what they are willing to risk for a love neither planned.

This is Alleyne's story in Mary Balogh's Bedwyn family series, set among the privileged, passionate and scandal-prone world of high society.