Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. When he meets a charming man in a London molly house, he falls head over heels - until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning him into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the remote Romney Marsh. The Marsh is a strange, empty place notorious for its ruthless gangs of smugglers. And one of them is dangerously familiar... Joss Doomsday has run the Doomsday smuggling clan since he was a boy. When the new baronet - his old lover - agrees to testify against Joss's sister, Joss acts fast to stop him. Their reunion is anything but happy, yet neither can stay away. Soon, all Joss and Gareth want is the chance to be together. But when Gareth finds himself threatened from every side, the gentleman and the smuggler must trust one another not just with their hearts, but with their lives.