Once upon a time, in a glittering world of balls and backroom gossip, there was a mysterious nobleman who never dared show his face.

Whispers call him the Enigma Earl. The Lord Phantom. Beastly to the core. He is not the kind of man a young lady wanted to be alone together at midnight, and Lydia Montgomery is horrified to be dragged from bed and packed off to live with this strange Lord Greenwich to save her mother from penury.

It's going to take a Beast to tame this Beauty.

While Lydia has received all of the training a lady should endure, she's decidedly un-ladylike. She despises her corset and isn't interested in marriage. But if she wants a chance at happiness, she'll have to set aside her fear of Lord Greenwich and discover the man hiding behind the mystery...and give in to the wicked attraction that that burns bright between this beauty and her earl.