A bankrupt lady. A broken Duke. A debt that can only be paid in blood...or silk. Lady Evangeline Pembrooke is a woman of cold logic and dry ink. When her father’s death leaves her with nothing but a crumbling estate and a mountain of gambling debts, she doesn't weep. She picks up a pen. To save her sister from the streets, Evangeline will do the unthinkable: she will audit the accounts of the most feared man in England. Sebastian Duke of Thorne , is known to the ton as the Devil of Thorne. A man of iron and shadows, he rules his northern empire with a frozen heart and a jagged temper. He doesn't want an auditor. He wants to be left alone in the ruins of his own dark past. But Evangeline is not afraid of the Devil. Locked away in the brooding, soot-stained halls of Thorne Abbey, Evangeline uncovers more than just embezzled gold. She finds a man drowning in a deficit of the soul. As the numbers begin to balance, the icy professional distance between them shatters. In the dark of the North, a dangerous attraction ignites, one that threatens to expose the Duke’s deadliest secrets and Evangeline’s most guarded desires. But in a world where every touch has a price and every secret is a liability, can two people who have lost everything find a surplus of love? The audit has begun. And the Devil is about to collect his due