HE BOUGHT HER FREEDOM TO BECOME HER MASTER. Tiana Cavendish is a woman of dangerous secrets. To save her family from the workhouse, she pens scandalous verses under a pseudonym that would ruin her reputation forever. Her double life shatters when Felix Baker, the formidable Earl of Kellynch, arrives to collect a massive debt. He knows her secret identity. He owns her father’s ruin. He demands Tiana as his collateral. Life at Kellynch Hall is a gilded cage. Felix intends to break the spirit of the Veiled Muse and mold Tiana into a paragon of aristocratic grace. He demands absolute obedience and enforces a rigid regime of refinement. Every laced corset is a reminder of his power. Every cold command is a test of her resolve. Tiana should hate the man who holds her captive. Instead, she finds herself craving the very discipline he uses to bind her. The ton is a den of vipers. A predatory rival seeks to steal her away for his own dark games. A jealous socialite plots to expose Tiana’s scandalous identity to the world. Felix must choose between his pristine reputation and the woman he has sworn to master. The scandal is coming. The debt must be paid in blood and heat. He will own every inch of her soul or watch them both burn in the fires of her disgrace.