A New York Times Bestseller. Outrageously wealthy¿ the Duke of Castleford has little incentive to curb his profligate ways. When a bequest adds a small property to his vast holdings that houses The Rarest Blooms a small flower business it¿s of little interest to him until he lays eyes on its owner. Daphne Joyes is coolly mysterious exquisitely beautiful and utterly scathing toward a man of Castleford¿s stamp in short worthy of his most calculated seduction.