Mary Balogh transports readers to Regency England, a lush era that she has brought to life time and again in the pages of her bestselling novels. She captures the pageantry and drama, the manners and morals of a time when women often paid the price of passion, and the rarest of all privileges was true love. When the indiscreet attentions of a handsome lord bring a young widow close to ruin, she comes face-to-face with a past she has fought to escape.