Locked away by her reclusive and intensely protective
father, the recently deceased "Mad Lord of Northumberland,"
Melissa is beautiful and educated but painfully naïve about
the real world--and the dark secrets of her birth. Now in
the care of her uncle, the Earl of Braddock, she must
prepare to enter London society and find a proper husband, a
task that grows complicated when she falls for the one man
she can never have. Just as a promising new life begins to
eclipse her tragic past, she'll find herself consumed by a
forbidden love that could destroy it all. . .