Seven years ago, Kitty made the biggest mistake of her life when she was tricked into eloping with a scoundrel. Now her husband is dead at the hands of London's most dangerous criminal - and he's after Kitty, too. Guarding Kitty and her six-year-old daughter Ann is dark, cynical Nicholas Dacre, who presents a reckless face to the world, frustrated by the constraints of his family name. He is as scarred as Kitty, but in her company, the rigid tenets...