The charming baseborn son of a duke.
Michael Trawler is a roguish businessman, focused entirely on growing his wealth in a desire to prove himself. At the wedding of his dear friend's little sister, he is shocked to fall in love with the bride, Viola Lynde.
An exiled belle of high society.
Viola is the petite, vicarious and beautiful daughter of an Earl, with the ton at her feet. However, when she abandons her fiancé at the altar, she is thrown from the beau monde , and from her home, by her father.
At a Christmas party years later, they are finally thrown together.
On Viola's return to England, she attends her brother's festivities in rural Sussex, and is intrigued to find Michael there. Neither of them expects the wild attraction that soon burns between them, but given the disapproval of Viola's brother, her past secrets and Michael's own ambitions for his future, can their affair possibly lead to anything more?
