Robin Puck Blackthorn lives for the pleasures of the moment. When an encounter at a masquerade ball leaves him coveting the one woman who refuses to succumb to his charms, Puck realizes that some rules were made to be broken. Scandalized to discover that the masked man with whom she'd shared a dance, and a forbidden embrace, is in fact the ton's most celebrated rake, Regina Hackett vows to keep her distance. Yet when her cousin vanishes, it is to Puck that Regina must turn.