1804, England When Lucinda Graydene’s father imparts a shattering secret on his deathbed, suddenly everything she thought she knew about herself is turned upside down.
Bereft and grieving, she confronts the author of her unorthodox origins — but instead she finds his heir.
And the autocratic Stefan Ankerville, Earl of Pennington, takes charge of her life despite her protests.
Adrift in the earl’s unusual family, Lucy struggles against the venom of a half-sister she never knew existed — and comes to feel things for Stefan that she’s never felt before.
