Many years ago, a love drama turned Amelia Greystone into a convinced old maid, forcing her to come to terms with a dull existence in the rural wilderness. The usual life changed overnight when Amelia accepted the offer to become the housekeeper of her recently widowed neighbor Simon Grenville, the powerful Earl of St. Just. Once upon a time, it was Simon who broke Amelia’s heart, but the past is long forgotten, and his children need attention... Amelia generously rushes to the rescue - and finds herself in the dangerous whirlpool of the life of a British aristocrat playing dangerous espionage games with the French Republicans. The old passion flares up with the same intensity, but is the happiness of mutual love possible in difficult times of war, when danger threatens both from strangers and from one’s own?..