Was ever a bride so sadly used—the groom gets killed on his wedding night!

So much for Miss Sabina Jenkins's glorious rise from lady's companion to wife of a rakehell English peer. And his vast fortune is cold comfort indeed!

For with all her new wealth and good looks, Sabina is still loath to enter the haute ton...that is, until the handsome Earl of Ashendon persuades her that her presence there would not be amiss.

At first Sabina thinks the Earl is shamming her. But as society—and the Earl--opens its arms to her, she begins to fret. Having made one disastrous mistake in love, can she trust herself not to make another?