Told as Lady Melody prepares for a wedding, the reader will be delighted by this tale of how love can conquer all.

Left as a child on the door of a gentlemen's club, Melody had been adopted by its members and staff. First thought to be the child of Aiden de Quincy, he sought and found love with Madeleine Chandler. Next Sir Colin Lambert sought to learn the truth of Melody's birth. He married Prudence Filby to keep her from marrying another.

The last possibility is Lord John "Jack" Redgrave. Lord John has returned from the war a changed man. He speaks rarely and when he does, it is brief and to the point. He is engaged to a beautiful woman whose younger sister, Laurel, has always loved him. On the last night of their house party, Laurel seeks him out just to watch him sleep. As his nightmare becomes violent, Laurel moves to console him. This encounter leads to a night which will change her life forever.

Jack awakens after his first night of restful sleep in forever to the knowledge that life is about to get better. Little does he know that his life is about to unravel. His betrothed has broken their engagement and plans to marry an Earl. He leaves for the West Indies to seek a another life.

Four years later, Jack returns to find himself the father to an enchanting five-year-old. His search for her mother, takes him back to his lost love, who insists that the child is not hers. Laurel sees him leaving her sister's home and finds out the perfidy of her sister and her parents. Her child is alive. All this time she has been in mourning for the child she was told had died.

Laurel has spent the last five years in disgrace; reviled by her family for refusing to name the father of her child. She is determined to reclaim her daughter and escape the life she has led. She seeks out Jack and demands the return of her daughter. Dumbfounded, Jack locks her into the attic at Brown's until he can decide what to do about the claims Laurel is making. Each of the three gentlemen and the two wives love Melody and would be devastated if she left their home. As Laurel and Jack work out their differences, Laurel and Melody are learning to know each other. Another search is made to determine where Melody lived until she turned up on the stoop of Brown's.

People with delightful secondary characters and a strong hero and heroine, Ms. Bradley leads the reader on a journey of discovery. Not only do we learn the treachery visited on Laurel by her own family, we follow as Jack starts to recover from his trauma and return to a semblance of the man he once was. There are some dark moments as the truth of what happened to Laurel are revealed.