After the news about her husband’s death in the Atlantic during his service as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, Rose Parsons is devastated. Life seems unbearable and she can’t think of loving another man in her life, ever again – let alone carry on with the huge amount of debt her husband left her with.

When she finds herself in the grand mansion of the Duke of Buford teaching his orphaned nephew, her life seems to finally come round: she not only becomes close friends with the Duke’s handsome son, Nicholas but also discovers a new purpose in life.

Fate though has other plans…

As a terrible accident disturbs the peace of the household, things start to fall apart, one by one…

And all this along with the sudden appearance of an old acquaintance that threatens to destroy all good there is, bringing nothing but chaos and…loss.