Scandals Heiress

Hyacinth Grey has had a quiet life in Gibraltar, managing her father's household and tutoring her young half-brother. One day, a letter arrives with the news that she has inherited a small fortune from her grandmother, an infamous courtesan. She sets sail for England with plans to found a charitable school for girls.

Thomas Pently, alias Smithson, is the nephew of a duke, but he ran away from home to try his luck in the East India Company. After a decade there, his mistress was murdered and his aristocratic family summoned him home. He's now third in line to his uncle's duchy, after his aging father and one sickly cousin.

They meet aboard the Whistler, sailing for a home neither of them really knows. Will their shipboard romance re-ignite amidst London's social whirl?