After the sudden death of her grandfather, the Duke of Sheffield, Magdalena Matthews was forced to flee home. The reason was cousin Neville, a rapist and liar, who declared Magdalena a murderer and thief. Forced into hiding, under the name of Helen, she hired herself as a governess to the little daughter of the early widowed Lord Hawthorne. It is not surprising that two lonely young people were drawn to each other, a love flared up between them, which they had not yet admitted to themselves. But upon learning who Elena really was, Adam recoiled. Unhappy Magdalena didn’t know how to prove that she was innocent? But help came, and from an unexpected direction...