The surprising news that dashing steward Harrison Tolly, illegitimate
son of the Earl of Ashwood, is the rightful heir to his father's estate
comes at a most inopportune time. With a wedding on the horizon and a
baby on the way, a new life of privilege and prestige would be a
blessing but for one problem: his heart belongs to another woman.
Harrison keeps his desires for his employer's wife, Lady Olivia Carey,
so hidden that even she does not know of his devotion. Her callous
husband, Marquis Carey, went into a rampage after Olivia's troublesome
younger sister returned from her tour of Spain pregnant, and Harrison
impulsively stepped in to save the entire family from scandal. Now, like
Olivia, he is trapped in a loveless arrangement. When a tragic accident
claims the marquis's life soon thereafter, can Harrison seize his chance
and cast aside one sister for another? Or will doing so expose the Carey
family's darkest secret--and ruin his only chance to win Olivia's heart?