With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion,lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heels in love.Sensitive, intelligent and high minded her noble pen pal seems to embody everything Emily has ever dreamed of in a man.But Simon Augustas Traherne,the mysterious Earl of Blade,is not at all what he seems.