Abandoned at the alter when her new husband hies off to Canada, Hope petitions the Church for an annulment of her marriage to the Marquis of Pennleigh. She is willing to risk ostracism from society to win her freedom from this travesty of a marriage Not only has her husband been gone for seven years, she believes he loves her sister. Kit returns to England to discover his child bride has blossomed into a lovely woman. She’s also filed a petition for an annulment of their marriage.
Fleeing arrest by a spurned suitor, Lady Riana goes to London. When she helps a man attacked by footpads, she is knifed. Luckily, the victim of the attack is army surgeon Captain Devlin Carrington. He takes her home to tend her injury.
When Dev cuts off her chemise to suture the wound, a fortune in jewels spill onto the blood soaked sheet. Has he saved a lovely jewel thief only to watch her hang?