Running away from her groom just before the wedding, Ashley Carrington understood that she was making an unforgivable mistake. After all, when you're thirty, it's time to look for a quiet haven. But she could not swear love and fidelity to the man in whom she was disappointed even before the wedding. She hid from her parents, from her friends and from her fiancé in an empty summer house, deciding to wait until the scandal died down. And fate rewarded her for her courage, giving her such happiness that she had never dreamed of.