She'd make him pay for his pleasures! Anne, alone in the world but for her friend Lillian, was determined to lead a rich and independent life. So when Lillian said she was going to England to find the father of her daughter, Sarah, Anne went too. The inherited cottage on the Cornish coast was just the place for her new life. — But fate prevented Lillian's reaching England, and Anne's reaching her cottage. Suddenly, Anne found herself the guardian of young Sarah, and searching for the child's father, the Duke of Lyonswood.
As if Anne hadn't problems enough, the arrogant, deceitful duke disclaimed his daughter and accused Anne of trickery!
Anne knew he was King ... just as sure as she knew that, tragically, she loved him ...
Eh, mediocre to me, and the 'hero' dude was twitching with rage all the time, which is a turnoff for me, plus there seemed to be no reason the heroine would be attracted to him except he was nice-looking, and the woman whose baby he was supposed to have fathered thought he was gorgeous and told her all kinds of indiscreet details about their sex life so the heroine dreamt about him as a hot dude even before she met him. The mystery seemed pretty obvious to me too. It didn't stink, but I don't need to reread it.