Respected spinster Miss Emily Winbolt, so cool and cynical
with would-be suitors, puts her reputation at risk after
tumbling into a stranger's arms. Suddenly, bleak
loneliness is replaced with a wanton, exciting sense of
abandon.
But Emily is an heiress, and her rescuer none other than
Sir William Ashenden, a man of some distinction. He needs
to marry, and she yearns to believe that William wants
plain, upright, suddenly reckless Emily—not for her
fortune, but for herself….