A prequel novella to The Gentleman Courtesans series After her first lackluster experience with intercourse, Clare Dunnaby swears off romantic entanglement for good. At twenty-one years old, she remains unattached and content-pursuing the study of botany and geology with single-minded focus. She remains certain she has no need for the amorous attentions of the opposite sex ... at least, until she enters her bedchamber to find a nude man waiting...