A spoiled heiress. An uncouth gardener. A match made in heaven—or in hell?

Lady Arabella Ponsford has it all: wealth, beauty, a title—and the vilest temper in England. She takes pleasure from punishing anyone who offends her—including the arrogant gardener whose impertinent gaze licks over her form and sets her pulse racing. When he threatens to penetrate her fa?ade to reveal the unhappy woman beneath, she destroys his belongings then evicts him without payment.

Widowed father Lawrence Baxter staked his future on a gardening commission at a country estate. But the spoiled heiress living there—the very delectable spoiled heiress—has other ideas. After a brief but scorching kiss, when Lawrence glimpses a passionate creature beneath her conceited exterior, she ruins his livelihood in a fit of spite, and he vows vengeance.