Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

After six fruitless London seasons, Lady Lydia Winthrop has resigned herself to marrying the perfectly adequate local vicar. Armed with her books, piano, and loved ones, she is determined to make a happy life with the man of her family’s dreams. That is, until Gabriel D’Aeth, the new Earl of Chatham, returns to Dorset, stirring memories of their long-ago Christmas Eve kiss. Lydia can’t commit to a faithful marriage until she manages her unruly interest in the wicked earl. Fortunately, she has a plan… When his uncle stole the woman he thought he loved, Gabo fled his family estate in a blaze of misery—but not before indulging in a smoldering Christmas Eve kiss with the innocent debutante next door, the lovely Lady Lydia. After years of debauchery, Gabo has returned as the new Earl of Chatham, ready to settle old scores. Yet his homecoming forces Gabo to confront that same meek debutante turned stunningly appealing woman and her tantalizing request: lessons in the sexual arts before her marriage to another. Revenge can wait a week with a bargain this salacious. Now the worst rake in London and Dorset’s most respectable spinster are headed for an illicit holiday escape before they return to their ordinary lives. Four nights of pleasure will certainly be enough to exhaust their inconvenient attraction. They couldn’t possibly want more than that. Could they?

After six fruitless London seasons, Lady Lydia Winthrop has resigned herself to marrying the perfectly adequate local vicar. Armed with her books, piano, and loved ones, she is determined to make a happy life with the man of her family’s dreams. That is, until Gabriel D’Aeth, the new Earl of Chatham, returns to Dorset, stirring memories of their long-ago Christmas Eve kiss. Lydia can’t commit to a faithful marriage until she manages her unruly interest in the wicked earl. Fortunately, she has a plan… When his uncle stole the woman he thought he loved, Gabo fled his family estate in a blaze of misery—but not before indulging in a smoldering Christmas Eve kiss with the innocent debutante next door, the lovely Lady Lydia. After years of debauchery, Gabo has returned as the new Earl of Chatham, ready to settle old scores. Yet his homecoming forces Gabo to confront that same meek debutante turned stunningly appealing woman and her tantalizing request: lessons in the sexual arts before her marriage to another. Revenge can wait a week with a bargain this salacious. Now the worst rake in London and Dorset’s most respectable spinster are headed for an illicit holiday escape before they return to their ordinary lives. Four nights of pleasure will certainly be enough to exhaust their inconvenient attraction. They couldn’t possibly want more than that. Could they?

Persephone Ballard has kidnapped a viscount. In her defense, it was her brother's fault. For ten years, Percy’s brother has been madly in love with a notorious actress. And for just as long, he’s refused to marry her to protect his wallflower little sister from scandal. But now that Percy’s firmly (and happily!) on the shelf, she’s had enough of her brother’s self-sacrifice. Her plan? Kidnap his rakish best friend at the family Christmas party, ruin her own reputation, and rescue her brother from his self-imposed heartbreak. Leopold, Viscount de Valincourt has found himself in plenty of scrapes—but waking up beside his best friend’s shy, scholarly, surprisingly cunning sister isn’t one he anticipated. Leo shocks them both, however, when he takes Percy's scheme even further. Why stop at ruination? If he brings Percy to his ancestral home as his bride, he can fulfill his beloved grandmother’s dying wishes to see him happily settled and save his best friend. But to convince Leo’s grandmother of their passionate elopement, Percy and Leo must fake a grand romance at the ancient abbey until the end of the Christmas season. Nothing—not ghostly monks or scorched plum puddings or even Grand-maman's watchful eye—will ruin their perfect plan. Unless, of course, someone actually falls in love . . .