Miss Diana Gresham was only seventeen when she was lured by the scheming Gerald Carshin into making a ruinous misstep, only to be abandoned by that handsome scoundrel. Now she is twenty-five, beautiful, wealthy, vibrantly intelligent, but embarrassed by her previous misjudgment and wary of her own slumbering susceptibility. When she meets the divinely charming Captain Robert Wilton, she tells herself that this gallant officer is unlike the fops and fortune hunters who swarm around her at the fashionable resort of Bath. But could even he be trusted to want her rather than her wealth--or to take her as his bride when a scandalous rake from the past returns to embrace her again?