Years ago at fading Blackwood Grange, Miles Weston, only a stable master's son, loved Arabella Sinclair, the lady he was never meant to claim.
Their unlikely closeness ended the night she turned to him for refuge and passion, leaving friendship and any larger hope in ruins.
Ten years later West has earned both reputation and fortune as a boxer, but Bella still owns his heart, and he will endure her anger for any place in her life.
Arabella, once the unquestioned lady of the house, now finds her father dead, her brother married, and her former duties in other hands, while the man who shattered her refuses to stay away.
Organizing an autumn festival pulls them back into old flirtation and sharp frustration, testing whether forbidden love can survive a second chance.
