Publisher's Synopsis
Forced by her impecunious father into matrimony with Ernest, the Earl of Cranleigh, twenty-year-old Charlotte Willoughby is widowed six weeks after the wedding. With her fortune under the protection of Ernest's cousin Sebastian, the Duke of Gresham, she begins to enjoy her independence. Charlotte finds herself drawn to Gresham, but he seems cold and indifferent towards her. And when the charismatic Viscount Roxburgh starts to pay her attention, she realises she may not be able to remain unattached for long...
