Sworn never to marry Or reveal her secrets... Staying with her aunt for the summer, hoping to finally put the past behind her, spinster Louisa Conrad meets the baronet of Hayton Hall, Sir Isaac Liddell—a man so broodingly abrasive she's determined to keep her distance! Until she discovers why he's that way... With his experiences so like her own, Louisa can't help but fall for him. She cannot let him closer unless he knows the truth of her past...but telling him risks her losing everything!