She can't make a baby without a husband! Or can she?



After witnessing the miracle of birth, self-determined spinster Miss Penelope Crone is having second thoughts about swearing off marriage. She wants—no, she needs—to experience the blessed event herself. Dear God, she's practically thirty! Time is running out!



Hugh Chesterton, Viscount Danbury, is relatively intelligent, good looking, unmarried, and most importantly, close at hand. With a little décolletage, a sway of the hips, and a few drinks of brandy, Penelope is certain she can extract a respectable offer.



If only she'd accounted for the power of passion.



Because unchecked lust takes over, leaving Penelope in a most precarious predicament. And Lord Danbury—the goose-brained jackanapes—is proving far less attainable than she'd imagined.



Is Penelope to be cast out of society or will Lord Danbury take a leap of faith and save her from ruin? He'd better act fast if he's going to make her his lady. His Lady At Last . . .