Eternity is a bloody bore for Valerian Caine. At age 27, a swashbuckling, amoral 18^th Century rake, he was cut down in a duel by a ricocheting bullet. Now stewing resentfully in a bureaucratic afterlife, he leaps at the chance to regain his human form and return to his self-indulgent existence. But there’s a catch. He’ll be transported to the England of a hundred years later, and will have one month to end the family feud launched by that fatal duel and ensure the happiness of the Caine and Sevaric descendants. If he succeeds, he’ll be transported back to his former life and the bullet will miss him. But standing between him and his goal is the obstinately unhappy and ascerbic Gwen Sevaric—and his surprising desire to be forever the one who makes her smile.

Winner of the RITA Award for Best Regency Romance.

“A compelling, out-of-touch rake and a plain, prickly heroine come together here in a funny, involving Regency.”   Library Journal