In the last ten years, Carolly Hanson has died six times. First in a car crash, then of TB. Beaten, stoned, and shot in the back. The last time, she suffocated from pneumonia.

Now she's awake, again, and in the arms of James Oscar Henry Northram, Earl of Traynern.

Carolly Hanson must be in training to be an angel. Why else would she keep dying and reappearing in different places and times? Clearly she is to help people, help them find true love, if she is to win her wings.

And the handsome Earl, clearly a stiff-backed, dark-brooding man of means, will...

In the last ten years, Carolly Hanson has died six times. First in a car crash, then of TB. Beaten, stoned, and shot in the back. The last time, she suffocated from pneumonia.

Now she's awake, again, and in the arms of James Oscar Henry Northram, Earl of Traynern.

Carolly Hanson must be in training to be an angel. Why else would she keep dying and reappearing in different places and times? Clearly she is to help people, help them find true love, if she is to win her wings.

And the handsome Earl, clearly a stiff-backed, dark-brooding man of means, will...

Lynette is a penniless relation, thanks to the sudden death of her father.

Refusing to burden her extended family, Lynette resigns to the inevitable: selling herself into marriage.

But to whom?

Viscount Marlock-a carnal, unrepentant, dark-devil of a man-has offered to arrange a profitable match.

But for a price.

The Viscount will teach her all she must know about ensnaring a man-using touch and tongue-opening her to the pleasures of the flesh. In turn, she must obey without question, trusting his whispered promises.