One of the most sophisticated and elegant members of London's elite society, Lady Emeline Gordon is stunned when she falls for Samuel Hartley, an uncouth American raised in the uncivilized wilderness, who has come to London to seek revenge.

Sir Alistair Munroe, horribly maimed during his service in the French and Indian War, lives a near solitary existence in a crumbling Scottish castle until Helen Fitzwilliam, former mistress of the Duke of Lister, and her two children arrive one night and change his life forever. When the Duke steals his children away from Helen, forcing her to reveal her true past to Alistair, and a friend from Alistair's army past is back from the dead--and quite...