Anne, the Duchess of Hawthorne, is tired of her reputation as the Ice Queen of London society. She resolves to leave behind her cold-hearted marriage to the duke--and to find a woman to keep her warm at night. Perhaps the dashing designer she hires to transform her Mayfair estate can also help her to transform her life.

Letitia Barrow has big dreams of running her own interior design business. The opportunity to reinvent the Hawthorne estate is the job that will finally establish her as a leading designer among the ton. The duchess might make her weak in the knees, but giving in to temptation could risk everything she's working so hard to build.

The designer and the duchess embark on an affair, with renovations to the house in full swing--and the renovations in their hearts well underway. Then, unexpectedly, the duke returns home and their feelings are tested. Can London's hottest new designer melt the Ice Queen forever?