The man she never forgot has returned-with secrets that could cost them everything.
Caroline, Dowager Marchioness of Lewiston, has accepted the life she was given: a grand title, a comfortable house, and a heart trained not to want what it cannot have.
Sent to India years ago to prevent his marriage to Caroline, Thomas Ashcombe returns with a fortune, a beloved daughter, and dangerous evidence of East India Company corruption.
As old feelings between Caroline and Thomas awaken, the secrets surrounding his past may destroy all hope-especially when a new law makes suspicion as dangerous as guilt.
Thomas's daughter, Anjali, faces her own trials in a society determined to question where she belongs. Intelligent, courageous, and caught between worlds, she never expects to find an ally in awkward, honest Sir Julian Meredith, a barrister more at ease in court than in any drawing room.
But when Julian and Anjali are drawn into her father's political danger, they must find the courage to expose a truth powerful men will do anything to bury-and to trust in a love that gives them both a place to belong.
