Lady Anabel Wyndham was in a most unusual situation for her first London season. Beautiful, witty, and still young, she nonetheless was a widow with three small and very lively children. Thus she could not claim to be an innocent in love--no matter how little experience she had with the ways and wiles of the fashionable world. And so when she caught the loving, attentive eyes of charming Christopher Hanford, and then aroused the impassioned interest and hunting instinct of Sir Charles Norbury, a handsome, notorious rake.