Newly returned from India, Lord Fallon feels duty-bound to
restore his family’s disreputable name to social
respectability. All that stands in his way is
Scandalbroth, a tome of notorious indiscretions in
which the Fallons feature prominently.
Miss Jane Ryder, secretary to the dowager author of the
anticipated tell-all, offers to accompany Fallon to his
estate and research a more proper history—his own—that might
overshadow past scandal. But on Christmas Eve they discover
a circle of candles in the snow, surrounding a willow basket
that holds an infant child. Everything changes, including
what they had thought most important in their own lives.