In April 1831, her grace Corinne Monroe wants her widowed son, Lord
Julian, to marry her best friend's daughter, Miss Sophie Wilkie. Julian
last saw Sophie when she was twelve years old, silent, skinny, and
always staring at him. However, his mother is nothing if not persuasive,
and Julian reluctantly accompanies her to London to meet the young lady.
And he knows that whatever happens isn't going to be good.
Lord Devlin Monroe, Julian's nephew, is very fond of his intriguing
reputation in society: he delights, he frightens, he brings on delicious
shudders. He's enjoying an extraordinarily pleasant bachelor life until
Miss Roxanne Radcliffe and her niece, Miss Sophie Wilkie, appear in
London society, and he suddenly finds himself wondering how he could
have enjoyed midnight alone.
Julian and Devlin must discover what really happened three years earlier
when Julian's first wife, Lily, was found dead. If they don't find out
the truth, their lives could be ruined. And there is another, even more
perfidious, danger that lurks in the shadows, waiting.