Jilted by the woman he loved, Tom, Viscount Sidmouth, has decided he will happily remain a bachelor for the rest of his life. He wants nothing to do with affairs of the heart. And he most certainly wants nothing to do with the wild widow next door.

After spending years trapped in a loveless marriage, Hyacinth has returned to London on a mission to experience everything she missed. Balls, parties, flirtations, and assignations—she wants it all. She isn't about to allow her disapproving neighbor to spoil her fun. She's living her life one raucous celebration at a time.

Until she inadvertently winds up in the viscount's garden late one night and he kisses her senseless. There's something about the handsome, forbidding lord that makes her want to abandon her rules.

And Tom? He's beginning to think that perhaps the only way to forget about his broken heart is to lose himself in a fling. Why not with the wicked woman who drives him to distraction? It's not as if he is going to fall in love . . .