Road to Ruin
Porter, Margaret Evans
FLIGHT AND FALL

Beautiful young Nerissa Newby is fleeing scandal--only to fall into an even more perilous predicament. The scurrilous rumors that had forced her to break off her respectable engagement and leave her childhood home are nothing compared to the shocking proposal of the notorious Baron Dominic Blythe. This decidedly ungentlemanly gentleman demands she play a part in a game of pretense that will complete the wreck of her reputation. But just when Nerissa discovers she is in danger of losing more than her good name, she begins to lose her foolish heart....