The Abduction of an Earl

While departing the first ball of the Season, dowager countess Persephone discovers there's an intruder in her coach. She's momentarily shocked, until she realizes she knows the man. They had briefly been lovers years ago. But how did he end up in her coach, apparently three sheets to the wind?

Jack, Earl of Wilmington, is sure he was drugged during the ball, for what else could explain his splitting headache ...