Lord Bevington could not deny his fascination with his new lady landscape designer. Petite, dark-haired, and pert, the lovely widow Sophie Pinnock was inexplicably desirable and completely unsuitable, For Bevington, born a commoner, now a lord, had his own dark secrets. He needed a mistress, not a soul mate--a woman who would take his body, not pry into the depths of his heart. But there was only one way to possess her. But Would She Accept the Proposal? Sophie Pinnock has found Eden in the lush, overgrown gardens of Bevington Castle--but her employer Lord Bevington is the devil himself. With his piercing gaze, his handsome physique, and his dark moods, he is every bit the opposite of her late husband. Her heat beats faster when he is near, and her fears melt at his touch. Sophie could never become a man's mistress, particularly not this man, who so clearly did not love her. But could she become his wife?