Leonora, the only daughter of the esteemed Crosby family, is stunned when she's introduced to James at a party. It's him—the handsome man who took her breath away when she first saw him on an icy road. She had heard that a new doctor was coming to the village clinic... but she never expected it to be this beautiful stranger! Leonora's nerves are frazzled and a slow heat starts to burn inside her whenever he turns his azure eyes toward her. Why is she feeling such never-before-experienced passion? She's supposed to focus on marrying her fiancé and supporting her struggling aristocratic family...