Used Book – A Midsummer Night's Passion, Eloisa James, Catherine Plasait

Ready to make her debut in society, Charlotte Calverstill leaves London for a short stay in the countryside with her friend Julia. To enjoy this break, Julia suggests they attend Stuart Hill's masked ball. These popular festivities are certainly unsuitable for young ladies of good society, but, behind their masks, no one will be able to identify them... Charlotte had not planned to lose her innocence that night. Yet that is what happens in the gardens where a stranger leads her. She is now irrevocably compromised. So be it, she will remain a spinster! Three years later, Charlotte recognizes Alexander, Duke of Sheffield, as her one-night lover...