When May Met December

She bought one night of passion. He returned engaged to another.At twenty-seven, Miss Evangeline Hartwell faced a bleak truth: society had cast her aside. With a fortune that afforded her every luxury but the one her heart craved, she dared to defy convention. Her scandalous proposition to the notorious, debt-ridden rake, Lord Adrian Blackwood, was simple: one night, ten thousand pounds, no questions asked.Adrian vanished with the dawn, leaving Evangeline with a bittersweet memory and a breathtaking secret that would forever alter her destiny. Now, seven years later, as she introduces her precocious daughter to the coast, fate plays its cruelest hand. The rogue who once burned for her in secret is not only a man of consequence but betrothed to a wealthy heiress, seemingly beyond her reach. But when their paths collide, he's about to uncover the truth that will shatter both their worlds and ignite a passion that refuses to be denied, no matter the impossibility.An Age Gap Regency Romance