Publisher's Synopsis
Lonely spinster to loved bride Respected spinster Miss Emily Winbolt, so cool and cynical with would-be suitors, puts her reputation at risk after tumbling into stranger's arms. Suddenly, bleak loneliness is replaced with a wanton, exciting sense of abandon. But Emily is an heiress, and her rescuer non other than Sir William Ashenden, a man of some distinction. He needs to marry and she yearns to believe that William wants plain, upright, suddenly reckless Emily - not for her fortune, but for herself...
