A most painful experience in love sent beautiful, young Miss Miranda Wainwright from her home in America to the estate of her aristocratic cousin in England. Here she could start a new life, far from humiliating memories of betrayal. Burned once by a man's lying lips, Miranda vowed never again to put her heart and her fate in romantic jeopardy. Then she met the arrogant - if undeniably dashing - Viscount of Wythe .