Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship-until slowly, her innocent trust opens a door to a world he's never known..a world where Kit can break off the shackles of his shameful past.Then Kit disappears from Violet's life. Lost, she dedicates the next decade to becoming a true lady, only to have her world turned upside down one night at a ball in London. There she encounters a handsome and celebrated sword master-and recongizes him as her childhood friend. Soon the flames of their forbidden past reignite into a passion neither of them can refuse.Kit can no more resist his first love now than he could years ago.
