Driven by despair and an unwillingness to forgive, William Woodville fled England, his title, and his duty. In the American wilderness he finds the best revenge: a woman. She was a captive handed from tribe to tribe in an odyssey of despair until William purchased the untamed innocent on the auction block. He married her, bedded her and defiantly presented her to his father in England then abruptly left. Abandoned by William, Margery blossomed into a magnificent lady of the ton. And by the time he returned to the wife and twin sons hed left behind, the tables had turned . . .