On the verge of womanhood, Lucy Horne is excited and nervous about her first Season.

Despite being the belle of every ball, she can't seem to quell her feelings for a man she has met only once before-the enigmatic and dashing Captain Jack. Captain Jack Harcourt is determined to put the bloody battlefields of France behind him and find a suitable wife.

But secrets from Jack's past threaten to confound his plans-and he cannot offer a beautiful girl a tainted name. . . .