About the book: 2013 / Arabella Marlbrook, left without a livelihood, with a sick mother and a small child in her arms, and despairing of finding work, decides to go to one of the best brothels in London. On her first evening there she meets Dominic Fernex, Duke of Arlesford, who abandoned her many years ago - unmarried and pregnant. Shocked by the circumstances of this meeting, Dominic invites her to become his mistress, not knowing that he has a son. Arabella understands that she must agree - she has no other choice, but she stubbornly hides the truth, becoming increasingly entangled in a web of untruths and omissions…