Readers and critics alike succumb to New York Times best-selling author Stephanie Laurens' Regency-era romances. In Temptation and Surrender, strapping gentle - man Jonas Tallent auditions managers for the inn on his family's estate. Though he is at first flabbergasted by the idea of a lady-much less a fetching one-running the inn, Jonas finds that Emily Beauregard makes a tantalizing case.