Ten years after a loud scandal that forced her to practically flee to the continent, Joanna di Capponi, the young widow of an Italian count, returns to England to save her dead sister’s son from his father, Guy de Salliss, Marquis of Greaves, at any cost. there is a rumor about him as a cruel scoundrel, the culprit of his wife’s death. However, Guy is not a monster or a murderer at all, but just a lonely, tired, exhausted man, exhausted under the weight of secrets. A man for whom Joanna, wary and distrustful, becomes a real ray of sunshine, illuminating the darkness of his existence and giving him hope for a new life, love and happiness...